In this article, I analyze a phenomenon that may arise during individual psychotherapy when a patient expresses a desire to become a psychotherapist. I understand identification with the psychotherapist and idealization of psychotherapy as an element of the therapeutic relationship that enables understanding the patient’s dynamics. This phenomenon is likely to be more common in patients with an undefined, unformed self, with dependent features, and, on the other hand, in psychotherapists with narcissistic needs that are not met in their private lives, a strong need for power, and a weaker need for supervision of their therapeutic work. The article analyzes factors on the patient’s side, the psychotherapist’s side, and within the therapeutic relationship that connects them when the patient develops a desire to be like their psychotherapist. I describe the components of the therapeutic relationship; factors influencing the relationship; dependency and power within it, the mechanisms of identification and idealization; mechanisms that foster identification and idealization on the part of both the patient and the psychotherapist; and finally, the phase of therapeutic work involving the patient’s achievement of psychological independence, with particular emphasis on the psychotherapist’s awareness of the impact they have on the patient during psychotherapy.