Would you mind telling us how you happened to come across this quote? It comes off to me as client-blaming. Kind of like doctors blaming patients for getting addicted to the opiods they prescribe.

Here's another article that came up when I did a search on "addiction to therapy"

When Therapy Becomes an Addiction | Psychology Today

I think one could describe me as having been addicted to therapy. I didn't know it exactly -- I didn't have the sense of self to know that.

Having detoxed from therapy for 2 years, and with the help and support of this site and an in-person support group I lucked into, I'm able to read this part


and experience what seems to be contempt that the author has for the "other" whom the patient seems to be to him, and see that as a feeling in the author and not necessarily me.

But how one can get to that point, other than luck -- I have not seen any good descriptions that a client could use or any suggestions for an "intention" they could set for themselves to help them get there -- other than "go to therapy", which then, as we are discussing, can become an addiction.