self-analysis
- 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.