I had a destructive experience with one therapist. I don't think of it in terms of transference. That's a manipulative and obfuscating term. It was a dsyfunctional and exploitive relationship independent of anything in the past.

The problem was not transference. The problem was therapy.

Therapy created lots of new problems. It solved none.

Chronic illness and other factors made me more susceptible to the therapist's savior complex.

I think subjecting relationship patterns to this farcical and dangerous practice is not a good bet.

A one-hour-per-week attachment is a contradiction in terms.

As for doctors, I've spent hundreds if not thousands of hours studying health so I can minimize contact with all organized healthcare. Instead of looking up to these people i now view them mostly with contempt and horror.

My focus is on learning how my body works and how to take care of it, rather than entering into all these co-dependent or parasitic healthcare relationships.