Szasz views psychoanalysis as better conceptualized as an educational process rather than a therapeutic one. Thus, he uses the analogy of learning to describe the analytic process. The first level is proto-education, the giving and receiving of advice; the second, education, the teaching and learning of abstractions; and the third, meta-education, the learning about learning. He feels that it is in the third category that psychoanalysis goes beyond any other therapy.