Countertransference and Retribution

Therapist

From your phone call, I get the impression that you want to
complain about a previous therapy, or to be precise, a psychotherapy,
and, more specifically, a therapy with the designation "talk therapy," like psychoanalysis.

Patient

Actually, I want to complain about three or four of them, and also
complain about some talk therapists that I only saw once.
Therapist
Before you go on, I'd like you to know, that as far as I am concerned,
many talk therapists can be ineffective and, unfortunately, can sometimes
even do harm to patients. There are some good ones but you probably
couldn't afford one of them. I like to think of myself as one of the good
ones. You're here because I like to help people like you, who seemed to have
had a difficult time in therapy. In fact, this is my mission in life.