I think that maybe the point is to use situations for good rather than harm if at all possible. I guess it would be a fairly natural response for someone to feel like the contract wasn't important to the therapist since he didn't deliver on the consequences that he had promised. Or perhaps that he is unable to hold appropriate boundaries. Or unable to teach his clients about appropriate cause and effect relationships in social interactions. But then sometimes people %#@&#! up (therapists included). Whether his action is helpful or harmful largely depends on Pinksoils response to this, I guess...

I don't know. SOmetimes a fairly secure relationship (where trust and consequences for violations have already been fairly established) can survive such things unscathed. Or perhaps better off even.

Only time will tell...