Therapists and clients as a group tend to believe and relate these stories to one another as hypnosis tends to transfer the mindset of the therapist to the client. This explains why therapy clients fervently defend both their therapist and the false abuse stories they have concocted in their imaginations. The fantasized stories begin to seem like memories to the patient because of the methods used in therapy which confuse the client's sense of reality with what was only imagined. Because the client doesn't realize that the therapist encouraged them to concoct a totally false abuse scenario, and she wants to be healed and made whole again, she tends to place her total faith in the erring therapist. Of course, no one is ever made whole by thinking on vile things like rape or incest.
Human beings are suggestible creatures.
All of us are suggestible to some extent and some of us to a very great extent. We ARE affected by the suggestions and authoritative statements of those to whom we yield our minds and hearts. Therefore we must be careful who we accept as our counselors. It is very important that we not yield uncritical acceptance to those who offer flattery in the place of truth which might wound our pride and who offer unproved theories and opinions instead of our common sense. It is flattery, pure and simple.