You all can parody the idea. But in fact, we people with autism personify our autism horses. The problem is, when our doctors use this equine dependency of confiding all of our deepest emotional secrets to our personified autism horses to cause a transference from our horses to themselves to get into our autistic savant minds. The transference would not be such a problem, either, except for when we are suddenly terminated from our doctor who has replaced our horse for us in our lives. I am happy to see so much more freedom of thought over here at Intensity Squared. Some other Aspie blogs like to censor what real people with autism actually have to say, what we are thinking. Intensity seems so much more refreshing.
When you transfer from the horse to the Dr do you ride with a saddle or bareback? 
My doctor engaged the transfer from my personified autism horse to himself, but I have never counter-transferred, since my doctor quit me due to my autism savant syndromes flowing from the transfer he engaged. And my horse is not as great a conversationalist as my doctor, since as I pointed out on another thread, my horse mainly prefers to talk about apples and peppermints.
