ABSTRACT
Self-analysis is a process that occurs during analysis in the presence of one's analyst. Development of a self-analytic function is historically a goal of psychoanalysis. This chapter gives examples from the former analysands, clinicians as well as those who are not clinicians, showing how they sustain the analytic process and possibly deepen their understanding of themselves after their treatment has ended. Using their reports, the chapter shows how insights gained through the self-analytic process. The chapter uses the term 'self-analysis' to describe the process of self-exploration that leads to the emergence of a new insight or the reawakening of an insight. It says many former analysands continued to seek out ways to deal with discontinuities between analyses itself and the process of self-reflection, which lead to self-analysis. Former analysands who are themselves analysts have the special stimulus of their patients' material to keep their own conflicts alive and it is discussed.
