Children of parents who are therapists have been overprotected and never allowed to release their aggression onto the parents. In therapy the child, as a rule, is able to do this without guilt. He leaves therapy on his own decision, without thanking the therapist, and can then criticize his parents who did not join him in the therapy. The therapy is successful because the therapist becomes the bad parent and the child can give up his guilty depressed feelings and his self-punitive poor academic work.