Wow. My experience was that the manufactured drama of therapy was not a vehicle for healthy change. It was a path to regression and dependency. It added a new and absurd layer of dysfunction onto existing difficulties. The situations created were fictional. They grew out of a simulated relationship with someone who was there to collect a fee, feed off the worship of the client-base, then go home to her real life. God help me if i had viewed this as compulsory. Breaking-up, to use SE's words, was a mess but ultimately the best thing.