Though we use the terms temporary, conditional, and artificial to describe the therapeutic relationship, we do not mean that the therapist pretends to care but rather that the care and concern are bound by the limits of the profession. Those limits are most fundamentally economic. The “soul healing” aspect of therapy between a professional clinician—therapist, psychologist, counselor, social worker, or religious/spiritual minister—and an individual imitates the real relationship of parent, sibling,