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self-analysis

n. Analysis performed on oneself, introspection.

WordNet
self-analysis
  1. n. a penetrating examination of your own beliefs and motives [syn: soul-searching]

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

Usage examples of "self-analysis".

She could not have described what it was in her that all the men she had met, the men with whom she had golfed and ridden and yachted, had failed to satisfy: but, ever since she had acquired the power of self-analysis, she had known that it was something which was a solid and indestructible part of her composition.