And I was saying how I prefer logic to emotion and I don't like talking or even thinking about emotional issues and he said, "this must be very hard for you then," as if it was some kind of revelation and not something I'd told him at least three times already.

Would it be usefully funny to tell you about the counsellor who in our fourth session managed "I get the feeling you don't like yourself very much"? Why yes talking treatments just drip with insight!