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By virtue of his position the training analyst loses the role of neutral and understanding parent and turns into the dreaded judge. For this reason a second analysis, after graduation and membership have been attained, is often easier and more fruitful. There are other complications. Motivation, for example, is first to become an analyst, and only secondarily to change or be cured. Transference is split between the training analyst and other instructors. The analyst's anonymity is lost because of professional contacts and observations at meetings as well as socially. The training analyst may be tempted to shunt onto control analysts or institute committees the real problems of criticism and other frustrations. The analysand often shows few symptoms but a well-adjusted system of defenses. The first control cases can create a special transference-countertransference configuration: the change from 'analysand-child' to 'analyst-parent' role may express itself in various ways, especially in doing to the control patient what the candidate did not want to have done to himself by his training analyst. Ability and readiness for continuing self-analysis is a vital element in maintaining one's health in the face of continuous contact with ill-health.