ABSTRACT
Thomas S. Szasz bases his therapy on the psychoanalytic model, he emphasizes certain special aspects. The simplest kind of educational situation is exemplified by giving and receiving advice. The expanding scope of the subject which the analyst-teacher expected his analysand-student to master resulted in two major developments in psychoanalysis. One was a marked lengthening of the analytic treatment. The other was a luxuriant growth of psychoanalytic factionalism, based largely on divergent views as to what constituted the most important topic for analytic instruction. Gradually, in the 1920s and more systematically in the 1930s, psychoanalytic treatment came to mean analysis of the transference neurosis. Psychoanalytic insight or understanding may be put to various uses; the choice rests with the patient. The principal method of psychoanalytic Meta education is the analysis of the therapeutic situation and of extra-analytic situations in which the patient plays a significant part.
