Not gonna comment on the quote as a whole, I'll just answer your question.
I don't think a T goes into their first session and thinks 'okay, this one looks like parental transference to me, let's do that one' and then manipulates their client to feel parental transference. I do think that most Ts that work with psychodynamic or psychoanalytic styles of therapy think that transference will happen at some point. I also think that they do manipulate clients sometimes (not in a bad way necessarily, they can use that to help too). Due to this manipulation, I think it could be that transference happens more often than it normally does.
For example: I can give some examples of experiencing transference throughout my life with teachers, friends and so on. The situations in which these experiences happened were very specific, it didn't happen with every teacher, every friend. My T, however, can manipulate me such that IF I experience transference of a certain kind a whole lot with other people, it's more probable that I also experience it with him.
But I don't think Ts deliberately manipulate you in order to get that reaction, it's more the overall structure of therapy that will naturally lead to such feelings, in my opinion.
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