Karen Horney, in discussing the “Feasibility and Desirability of Self-Analysis,” addresses herself to the danger that the self-analysand might gain insights that will increase rather than diminish self-destructive and disturbing tendencies, causing the patient to harm himself or otherwise regress. In dismissing this prospect from being a matter that should preclude encouraging self-analysis, Dr. Horney pointed out that although her experience revealed really alarming self-destructive disturbances in psychoanalysis did occur, they happened for the most part because interpretation in the analytical situation