I don't suscribe to the idea that an attachment to a therapist (don't like the term "transference") is necessarily about unmet needs from childhood. Wasn't the case for me. It's a fantasy. The fantasy of that perfectly attuned therapist who hangs on the client's every word, the idea of being completely fulfilled by one person, etc. It's very human of course to want that but it's not of this world because nobody will focus on you like that: not your spouse, not your BFF, not your parents, not your child. Nobody. Which is why it can be so intoxicating when a therapist does it. But it's not real and it is often a distraction as well: by focusing so much on the "relationship" the client forgets why they came to therapy in the first place, they stop looking for ways to improve their life and sometimes spend years in therapy to try to "resolve" it, to "work through it" . For what purpose?