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  • n  a penetrating examination of your own beliefs and motives
  • n  the application of psychotherapeutic principles to the analysis of your own personality

  • Buckley offers his own well-considered self-analysis: "I feel I qualify spiritually and philosophically as a conservative, but temperamentally I am not of the breed.
  • So, says Jones, it was only after years of self-analysis "that Freud at last conquered his resistance and triumphantly entered Rome.
  • By the mid-1890s, he was launched on a full-blown self-analysis, an enterprise for which he had no guidelines and no predecessors.
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  • Overdue 'shield law' deserves passage
    Amid the heartache wrought by the latest American bloodletting, the nation has once again taken to dissecting the controversial Second Amendment. On firearm ownership, this period of self-analysis is critical.
    Oct. 3, 2013 - The Journal News

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