ABSTRACT
This chapter presents what people might call an attitude toward self-care and the impact of the patient on the therapist's self-esteem and self-regulation. It explores how the therapist's self-esteem is impacted by external communities. The chapter also presents the implications of the nature and personality of persons drawn to this work. In relational psychoanalysis, it is expected "that the treatment will re-evoke aspects of the very experiences that contributed to early developmental difficulties". In 2004, Nancy McWilliams states that most people, who are attracted to being psychotherapists like closeness, dislike separation, fear rejection, and suffer guilt readily. Psychologist Angela Duckworth's Grit is about perseverance for long-term goals, passion, and having a growth mindset. Masud Khan thought that a mental state of lying fallow was essential to any creative endeavor. The chapter concludes with words of encouragement for any young professional accepted into an institute as a candidate for psychoanalytic training or any early career student enamored with relational psychoanalysis.
