You are mistaken if you think that relationships forged within a therapeutic context can be neatly categorised as success stories or positive experiences.

Several years into my relationship with a medical professional who had been involved in my psychiatric care, I would have told you that it was a liberating, fun, exciting and an interesting experience. A success! Now, more years down the line, I can see it for what is was: exploitative, abusive, unethical and very unsafe. It has taken me this long to fully understand the dangerous nature of that relationship because transference is a powerful distorter and transference is always present in a client/professional relationship.