"Firstly, if you are managing your transference you are doing it wrong: you pay a psychotherapist to manage it for you, your job is just to fall in love and speak in free association."

Good lord, that last part freaks me out!

I don't think my therapist tried to bring on transference. That would require, I imagine, a kind of mothering me or being especially thoughtful/caring. She doesn't do thoughtful/caring. I think I created the environment for transference by picking her as my therapist, though. She was the first therapist I've ever "picked," and I knew it was bound to happen unfortunately.