Why then would one want to undertake a self-analysis?

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Why then would one want to undertake a self-analysis?

One conducted then with the obvious disadvantage of not being under the management of the skilled professional.

Costs (Money, time, and emotional)
Always available.
You really do so already,
You have ‘black’ secrets, (perverse embarrassing or criminal)
Fear close relation with others.
Fear of being seduced sexual by therapists.
Distrust of/ or anxiety about the criticism or hostility from others and therapists in particular.
Bad or failed therapy experience attempts in the past.
Previous therapy ended too soon or never got to root causes.
Freud did his own, self-analysis using free association and dream analysis.
Karen Horney M.D. --an experienced analyst and trainer of other psychoanalysts, published 1942 and was widely distributed through several editions) a practical, no nonsense, method for self-analysis that contained just enough theory and examples of how the analysis should work as to set a person to work on himself. She pointed out that dedication to the process was in the long run what yielded results, rather than any special skill or intelligence level.