Coming of age is the biopsychosocial process by which the ascending generation achieves autonomy, independence, and self-responsibility. In the psychic realm these have a parricidal significance and trigger conflicts of aggression. The analysis of these conflicts poses special problems of methodology and technique for the analyst who needs to make the analytic situation a safe place for himself when he finds himself on the receiving end of the patient's aggression. Three men who came to analysis with late adolescent-young adult issues are presented. Two were also in analysis in childhood and the third returned for analysis in late middle age. The need for reanalysis is examined in the framework of contemporary concepts of development. Other motivations for returning to analysis are identified: Analysis in childhood tends to establish the analyst as guide and mentor paralleling the parent—child relationship; the analytic experience fosters the conviction, that understanding how the mind works is an essential tool for living more comfortably with oneself and others.