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When therapeutic relationships become romantic feelings

I developed feelings for my therapist and had to stop seeing them, and now I don't know if what I felt was real or just transference.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The artificial intimacy of therapy can generate authentic emotions that nonetheless belong to the therapeutic container rather than real relationship.

Ideas that help explain it
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