Chessick has reviewed the scant literature about the self-analysis that occurs after a successful training analysis. He has performed self-analysis for over twenty-five years, using a self psychology viewpoint. He determines that the pregenital contribution to the nuclear self and to tension regulation was not originally analyzed. The primary value of self-analysis is in dealing with inevitable countertransference problems. Self-analysis reworks and better integrates the internalization of one's psychoanalyst, especially in the area of unresolved negative transference. Self-analysis makes possible research into the differences between formal psychoanalysis and