Thanks, Elio. I don't think you need to break your IST posts into parts. I like that you have manageable chunks of paragraphs. I usually don't read posts if there are large blocks of text. It's too hard to follow, even if I highlight a few lines at a time.

I wanted to say that I understand better now what you've been referring to with your sense of counter transference. Although I wouldn't call it that in my case, when I brought this up to my therapist after the death of a prescriber, she also changed how she was. The difference was that she told me that she'd was reeling from three big losses and it would be some time before she could get to making plans about her own sudden death or incapacitation. So in my case, I knew what was behind the change.

Maybe it's the topic that made your therapist get lost in herself a bit (if that's what it was), and not any kind of counter transference--so, more topic-related than you-related?