I find this discussion very strange. The thing most important to me is not whether my therapist "cares" but how competent he is. When I am in a deep, dark, dangerous place (which I am) does he know enough about himself and his subject to know how to find me? I do not want to know if a surgeon who is operating on my mind "cares," I want to know if he knows what he is doing. Does he care enough to do that?