Originally Posted by
Afraid2Succeed 
It's so funny that the therapeutic alliance accounts for most of the benefits in therapy. Doesn't take 4-5 years of training to develop that.
That's incorrect. The therapeutic alliance has been found to be a major contributor to outcome success, but it isn't the sole contributor. Carl Rogers spoke of the importance of the therapeutic relationship in a number of his books, quite interesting stuff. "A Way of Being" is a classic, and was the pre-cursor to "On Becoming A Person"...both of which are modern classics.
And it is 6-7 years.
-p