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The Psychoanalyst’s Analysis and Reanalysis
Individuals who seek to become psychoanalysts are usually motivated by a deep wish to help other people, that stems from a desire to understand and help themselves.
With few exceptions, psychoanalysts, and therapists from all schools of psychotherapy, will have had early life experiences that have made them suffer beyond the common and tolerable developmental frustrations. The pain those experiences created led them to dedicate significant mental resources to reflect on their suffering in order to attenuate it.