Attachment in Psychotherapy (2007)

David Wallin, author of Attachment in Psychotherapy (2007), states in an interview that "…if we think about therapy as kind of a new attachment relationship, it's a new attachment relationship that's between two adults. but also a relationship between the therapist as parent and the patient as baby…We bring those yearnings, those fears, to adult relationships. I think it's meaningful to think of that as, in a sense, the baby part of us. When that very young part of us can come alive in the relationship with a therapist, there's an opportunity for that part of us to change and to develop." Obviously, the relationship between a therapist and a client is not in reality a relationship between a parent and a child. What really was Wallin talking about in providing this metaphor?