SELF-ANALYSIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does self-analysis mean? 

• SELF-ANALYSIS (noun)
  The noun SELF-ANALYSIS has 2 senses:

1. a penetrating examination of your own beliefs and motives

2. the application of psychotherapeutic principles to the analysis of your own personality

  Familiarity information: SELF-ANALYSIS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SELF-ANALYSIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A penetrating examination of your own beliefs and motives

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

self-analysis; soul-searching

Hypernyms ("self-analysis" is a kind of...):

introspection; self-contemplation; self-examination (the contemplation of your own thoughts and desires and conduct)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The application of psychotherapeutic principles to the analysis of your own personality

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("self-analysis" is a kind of...):

psychotherapy (the treatment of mental or emotional problems by psychological means)

 Context examples 

In the breathing spell of the vacation he had taken, he had spent many hours in self-analysis, and thereby learned much of himself.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)