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The issue of self-disclosure—intentional and inadvertent—is currently receiving considerable attention in the psychoanalytic world. In contemporary relational/interpersonal thinking, we have moved beyond the idea of the anonymous analyst. The analyst wearing an identifiable symbol of religion—indeed the analyst's religious-spiritual outlook—offers special challenges to the analytic dyad. It is at once an intentional and unintentional disclosure of the analyst's inner and outer worlds, multiplicity of selves, and links to others outside the consulting room. This paper considers the analyst's religious outlook and physical symbol of spirituality (in this case, the analyst's outward manifestation of Jewish observance, a yarmulke) as a particular feature of the analytic relationship, with implications for transference and countertransference.