My opinion is that ambiguity is the cornerstone of therapist role playing and it's the reason for most of the problems.

As for therapists who act and talk like doctors... i think it's a red flag and suggests they are using clients to live out some wannabe-doctor fantasy. There is nothing medical about therapy, and it's nuts when they pretend otherwise.

Your story reminds me... therapists are at the center of everything. It's their boundaries, their narrative, their special world. Clients are almost incidental. I could be wrong, but seems he is less concerned with your well being than with his posturing and feelings of self-importance. If you quit on him, presumably he'd look for another client to make him feel important and doctor-ish. Frankly, i now see some of my therapists as predator-like, sitting in their lair, waiting for the vulnerable and the broken to show up.