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Dedication
To Karen Jo Schwaiger Harrington
My last and greatest love, with gratitude for the wonderful life you have given me.

In memory of Raymond J. Corsini (1914–2008)

Courtesy of Dr. Kleo Rigney Corsini

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Core Structure

Rational Emotive
Client-Centered
Psychoanalytic

Interpersonal

Multicultural
Mindfulness

Integrative
Existential
Cognitive
Behavior
Adlerian

Positive
Gestalt

Family
Overview 22 60 102 158 200 238 274 310 350 392 430 482 528 562
Basic Concepts 22 60 102 158 200 238 274 310 350 392 430 482 528 562
Other Systems 25 64 106 162 201 240 278 313 353 397 432 483 530 569
History 27 66 112 164 202 242 278 315 354 398 436 485 532 570
Precursors 27 66 112 164 202 242 278 315 354 398 436 485 532 570
Beginnings 27 67 112 165 204 242 279 317 356 399 437 486 532 570
Current Status 31 69 115 165 205 243 280 319 357 400 438 486 534 573
Personality 34 70 116 167 206 245 281 319 359 404 440 487 536 575
Theory of Personality 34 70 116 167 206 245 281 319 359 404 440 487 536 575
Variety of Concepts — 73 119 171 207 247 282 322 360 405 446 488 536 576
Psychotherapy 37 74 122 173 209 252 286 326 361 407 448 489 537 577
Theory of Psychotherapy 37 74 122 173 209 252 286 326 361 407 448 489 537 577
Process of Psychotherapy 41 76 125 175 210 254 288 330 362 409 451 500 541 578
Mechanisms of 44 79 126 182 211 257 294 332 370 414 454 506 543 582
Psychotherapy
Applications 47 82 129 183 212 257 298 335 371 415 456 510 545 584
Who Can We Help? 47 82 129 183 212 257 298 335 371 415 456 510 545 584
Treatment 47 83 132 184 214 258 298 336 373 416 464 514 546 584
Evidence 48 86 135 186 223 262 300 338 374 418 468 515 546 588
Psychotherapy in a 49 88 141 188 226 264 301 341 380 420 471 516 549 589
Multicultural World
Case Example 50 89 142 192 227 264 302 342 382 421 473 517 550 589
Summary 53 94 149 194 230 268 305 344 384 423 474 519 556 592
Annotated Bibliography 54 95 150 195 232 269 305 345 385 424 476 520 556 593
Case Readings 54 96 150 196 233 269 306 346 386 424 477 521 557 593
References 55 96 151 196 233 270 306 346 386 425 477 522 558 594

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Contents

Contributors x
Acknowledgments xiv
Preface xv

1 Introduction to 21st-Century Psychotherapies / Frank Dumont 1


Evolution of this Science and Profession 2
Psychotherapy-Related Science in the 19th Century 4
The Impact of the Biological Sciences
on Psychotherapy 6
Cultural Factors and Psychotherapy 9
Negotiating Fault Lines in the EBT Terrain 11
Manualization of Treatment 13
Obstacles to a Science of Psychotherapy 14
Sources of Hope 14
Industrializing Psychotherapy 15
Who Can Do Psychotherapy? 15
Conclusion 16
References 18

2 Psychodynamic Psychotherapies / Jeremy D. Safran, Alexander Kriss,


and Victoria Kaitlin Foley 21
Overview 22
History 27
Personality 34
Psychotherapy 37
Applications 47
Case Example 50
Summary 53
Annotated Bibliography 54
Case Readings 54
References 55

3 Adlerian Psychotherapy / Michael P. Maniacci


and Laurie Sackett-Maniacci 59
Overview 60
History 66
Personality 70
Psychotherapy 74
Applications 82
Case Example 89
Summary 94
Annotated Bibliography 95
Case Readings 96
References 96
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4 Client-Centered Therapy / Nathaniel J. Raskin, Carl R. Rogers, and Marjorie C. Witty 101
Overview 102
History 112
Personality 116
Psychotherapy 122
Applications 129
Case Example 142
Summary 149
Annotated Bibliography 150
Case Readings 150
References 151

5 Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy / Albert Ellis and Debbie Joffe Ellis 157
Overview 158
History 164
Personality 167
Psychotherapy 173
Applications 183
Case Example 192
Summary 194
Annotated Bibliography 195
Case Readings 196
References 196

6 Behavior Therapy / Martin M. Antony 199


Overview 200
History 202
Personality 206
Psychotherapy 209
Applications 212
Case Example 227
Summary 230
Conclusion 232
Annotated Bibliography 232
Case Readings 233
References 233

7 Cognitive Therapy / Aaron T. Beck and Marjorie E. Weishaar 237


Overview 238
History 242
Personality 245
Psychotherapy 252
Applications 257
Case Example 264
Summary 268
Annotated Bibliography 269
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Case Readings 269
References 270

8 Existential Psychotherapy / Irvin D. Yalom and Ruthellen Josselson 273


Overview 274
History 278
Personality 281
Psychotherapy 286
Applications 298
Case Example 302
Summary 305
Annotated Bibliography 305
Case Readings 306
References 306

9 Gestalt Therapy / Gary Yontef, Lynne Jacobs and Charles Bowman 309
Overview 310
History 315
Personality 319
Psychotherapy 326
Applications 335
Case Example 342
Summary 344
Annotated Bibliography 345
Case Readings 346
References 346

10 Interpersonal Psychotherapy / Helen Verdeli and Myrna M. Weissman 349


Overview 350
History 354
Personality 359
Psychotherapy 361
Applications 371
Case Example 382
Summary 384
Annotated Bibliography 385
Case Readings 386
References 386

11 Family Therapy / Irene Goldenberg and Mark Stanton 391


Overview 392
History 398
Personality 404
Psychotherapy 407
Applications 415

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Case Example 421
Summary 423
Annotated Bibliography 424
Case Readings 424
References 425

12 Mindfulness and Other Contemplative Therapies / Roger Walsh and Frances


Vaughan 429
Overview 430
History 436
Personality 440
Psychotherapy 448
Applications 456
Case Example 473
Summary 474
Annotated Bibliography 476
Web Sites and Other Resources 477
Books for Learning to Meditate 477
Case Readings 477
References 477

13 Positive Psychotherapy / Tayyab Rashid and Martin Seligman 481


Overview 482
History 485
Personality 487
Psychotherapy 489
Applications 510
Case Example 517
Summary 519
Annotated Bibliography and Web Resources 520
Additional Clinical Books 521
Nonclinical Books with Practical Resources 521
Case Readings 521
References 522

14 Integrative Psychotherapies / John C. Norcross and Larry E. Beutler 527


Overview 528
History 532
Personality 536
Psychotherapy 537
Applications 545
Case Example 550
Summary 556

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Annotated Bibliography and Web Resources 556
Case Readings and Videotapes 557
References 558

15 Multicultural Theories of Psychotherapy / Lillian Comas-Díaz 561


Overview 562
History 570
Personality 575
Psychotherapy 577
Applications 584
Case Example 589
Summary 592
Annotated Bibliography 593
Case Readings 593
References 594

16 Contemporary Challenges and Controversies / Kenneth S. Pope


and Danny Wedding 599
The Mental-Health Workforce 600
Physicians, Medications, and Psychotherapy 602
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM -5), The International Classification
of Diseases (ICD -11), and Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) 604
Empirically Supported Therapies 605
Phones, Computers, and the Internet 608
Therapists’ Sexual Involvement With Patients, Nonsexual Physical Touch, and
Sexual Feelings 612
Nonsexual Multiple Relationships and Boundary Issues 615
Accessibility and People with Disabilities 617
The American Psychological Association, the Law, and Individual
Ethical Responsibility 619
Detainee Interrogations 619
The Goldwater Rule 621
Cultures 622
Annotated Bibliography 625
References 626
Glossary 629
Name Index 639
Subject Index 647

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Contributors

Martin M. Antony Therapy. He teaches Gestalt therapy nationally


Martin M. Antony, PhD, is Professor of and internationally and has numerous related
Psychology at Ryerson University, Toronto, publications. He is a Gestalt trainer, psychotherapist
Canada, where he conducts research on the and business consultant in Indianapolis, Indiana.
nature and treatment of anxiety disorders
Lillian Comas-Díaz
and perfectionism. The author of more than
Lillian Comas-Díaz, PhD, is a clinical psychologist
250 scholarly publications, Dr. Antony has
in full-time private practice and a Clinical Professor
coauthored or edited 30 books, including Behavior
at the George Washington University Department
Therapy and the Oxford Handbook of Anxiety and
of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. Lillian has
Related Disorders. Dr. Antony has received many
published extensively in psychology and serves
career awards for his contributions to research and
on several editorial boards. She is the author of
training, and he also has served as president of the
Multicultural Care: A Clinician’s Guide to Cultural
Canadian Psychological Association.
Competence. Her most recent book is Womanist
Aaron T. Beck and Mujerista Psychologies: Voices of Fire, Acts of
Aaron T. Beck, MD, founded Cognitive Therapy. He Courage (coedited with T. Bryant Davis).
currently directs the Psychopathology Research Unit Frank Dumont
in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Frank Dumont, EdD, Professor Emeritus, McGill
Pennsylvania, where he is an emeritus professor. Dr. University, Montreal, Canada, was Director of
Beck is the recipient of numerous awards, including the PhD program in counseling psychology at
the 2006 Albert Lasker Clinical Medical Research McGill, where he served as department chair.
Award for developing Cognitive Therapy. He published widely on inferential processes in
Larry E. Beutler psychotherapy, collaborated with Raymond Corsini
Larry E. Beutler, PhD, is Professor Emeritus at on The Dictionary of Psychology, and most recently
the University of California–Santa Barbara and the authored A History of Personality Psychology.
William McInnes Distinguished Professor Emeritus Albert Ellis (1913–2007)
at Palo Alto University. He is past editor of the Albert Ellis, PhD, wrote more than 80 books and
Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology and the more than 800 articles, but he is best known for
Journal of Clinical Psychology. He is past president developing and championing Rational Emotive
of two APA divisions (the Society of Clinical Behavior Therapy (REBT). He was consistently
Psychology and the Society for Advancement of ranked as one of the most influential psychologists
Psychotherapy) and author or coauthor of 29 books of the 20th century. In addition to his writing, Al
and more than 500 scholarly papers and chapters on trained and supervised practitioners, and he helped
psychotherapy and assessment. He is the developer thousands of clients in his clinical practice. Dr. Ellis
of Systematic Treatment Selection (STS) and the was posthumously awarded the 2013 Award for
associated website (www.innerlife.com). STS is Outstanding Lifetime Contributions to Psychology
an evidence-based integrative psychotherapy that by the American Psychological Association.
identifies principles of therapeutic change that are
associated with effectiveness. Debbie Joffe Ellis
Debbie Joffe Ellis, MDAM, is a licensed psychologist
Charles Bowman and mental health counselor, author, and presenter
Charles Bowman is Co-President of the who conducted public and professional workshops
Indianapolis Gestalt Institute and a past president with her husband, Albert Ellis, until his death in
of the Association for the Advancement of Gestalt 2007. Debbie currently maintains a clinical practice

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and travels around the world presenting on Rational New School for Social Research in New York City
Emotive Behavior Therapy. and completed internship training at Columbia
Victoria Kaitlin Foley University Medical Center in 2014. Dr. Kriss
Victoria Kaitlin Foley is a doctoral student and Prize currently works in private practice in New York
Fellow in clinical psychology at The New School City and is a clinical supervisor at the City College
for Social Research in New York, New York. She of New York and The New School.
received her MA in Psychology from The New Michael P. Maniacci
School in 2017 and her BA in English and Political Michael P. Maniacci, PsyD, is a licensed
Science from Vanderbilt University in 2011. clinical psychologist in private practice in
Irene Goldenberg Chicago and Naperville, Illinois. He teaches
Irene Goldenberg, EdD, is a Professor Emerita in the at numerous institutions and consults with
Department of Psychiatry, University of California several organizations. He has written more
at Los Angeles. She has trained generations of than 50 articles or book chapters and authored,
psychiatrists and psychologists in family therapy, coauthored, or edited five textbooks.
and she coauthored Family Therapy: An Overview, John C. Norcross
now in its eighth edition. Currently, Irene is in John C. Norcross, PhD, ABPP, is Distinguished
independent practice in Los Angeles, California. Professor and former Chair of Psychology at the
Lynne Jacobs University of Scranton, Adjunct Professor of
Lynne Jacobs, PhD, cofounded the Pacific Gestalt Psychiatry at SUNY Upstate Medical University,
Institute in Los Angeles, where she continues to and a clinical psychologist in part-time practice.
practice. She is also a training and supervising Author of more than 400 publications, Dr. Norcross
analyst at the Institute of Contemporary has cowritten or edited 25 books, including
Psychoanalysis, and she maintains a private practice Psychotherapy Relationships That Work, Handbook
in Los Angeles. Lynne has numerous publications of Psychotherapy Integration, Insider’s Guide to
and teaches Gestalt therapists internationally. Graduate Programs in Clinical and Counseling
Psychology, and the five-volume APA Handbook
Ruthellen Josselson
of Clinical Psychology. John also has served as
Ruthellen Josselson, PhD, is a professor of clinical
president of the APA Society of Clinical Psychology,
psychology at the Fielding Graduate University
APA Division of Psychotherapy, and the Society for
in Santa Barbara, California, and a practicing
the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration.
psychotherapist. She is author of many books and
articles, including Playing Pygmalion: How People Kenneth S. Pope
Create One Another, The Space Between Us: Kenneth S. Pope, PhD, is a licensed psychologist
Exploring the Dimensions of Human Relationships, and diplomate in clinical psychology whose works
and, most recently, Paths to Fulfillment: Women’s include more than 100 articles and chapters.
Search for Meaning and Identity. She is codirector The most recent of Ken’s 12 books are Ethics in
of the Yalom Institute of Psychotherapy, and she Psychotherapy and Counseling: A Practical Guide
has received both the Henry A. Murray Award (6th ed.) (coauthored with Melba J. T. Vasquez)
and the Theodore R. Sarbin Award from the and Five Steps to Strengthen Ethics in Organizations
American Psychological Association. and Individuals: Effective Strategies Informed by
Alexander Kriss Research and History. A Fellow of the Association
Alexander Kriss, PhD, is a clinical psychologist for Psychological Science (APS), Ken provides free
and writer. He received his doctorate from The psychology and disability resources at kpope.com.

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Tayyab Rashid Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis,
Dr. Tayyab Rashid, (www.tayyabrashid.com), is a and past president of the International Association
licensed clinical psychologist and associate for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy.
faculty at the University of Toronto, Canada. He is the author of numerous books, including
Dr. Rashid‘s expertise includes positive psychology Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Therapies.
based clinical interventions, postdramatic growth, Martin E. P. Seligman
resilience, and self-development of emerging Martin Seligman, PhD, is the Zellerbach Family
adults. He is the current president of Clinical Professor of Psychology and Director of the Positive
Division of the International Positive Psychology Psychology Center at the University of Pennsylvania.
Association (IPPA) and recipient of IPPA’s Seligman cofounded the field of positive psychology
Outstanding Practitioner Award for 2017. in 1998 and has since devoted his career to
Nathaniel J. Raskin (1921–2010) furthering the study of positive emotion, positive
Nathaniel J. Raskin, PhD, has been called a “quiet character traits, and positive institutions. Seligman’s
giant” of the client-centered approach. He was a earlier work focused on learned helplessness and
student of Carl Rogers, later a colleague and close depression. Seligman is an often-cited authority in
friend, and a Professor of Clinical Psychology at Positive Psychology and a best-selling author.
Northwestern University Medical School. Everyone Mark Stanton
who experienced Nat in small groups, in classes, Mark Stanton, PhD, ABPP, is the provost and a
or as clients, recalls his decency, generosity, and professor of Graduate Psychology at Azusa Pacific
profound embodiment of unconditional positive University. He was the inaugural editor of Couple
regard, empathic understanding, and genuineness. and Family Psychology: Research and Practice, the
2011–2012 president of the American Board of
Carl Rogers (1902–1987)
Couple and Family Psychology, the 2005 president
Carl Ransom Rogers, PhD, pioneer of the
of the APA Society for Family Psychology, and
client-centered and person-centered approach,
coauthor of the ninth edition of Family Therapy:
is regarded as one of the most influential and
An Overview. He maintains a private practice
revolutionary psychologists of the 20th century.
focused on couples therapy.
He was a master therapist whose emancipatory
theory and practice, not only of therapy but also Frances Vaughan (1935–2017)
of interpersonal relationships, are widely studied. Frances Vaughan, Ph.D., was formerly president
His later work included large group encounters of both the Association of Transpersonal
between parties to international conflicts in Psychology and the Association of Humanistic
Northern Ireland and Central America. Psychology, as well as on the clinical faculty
of the University of California. Her many
Laurie Sackett-Maniacci publications included the books Awakening
Laurie Sackett-Maniacci, PsyD, is a licensed clinical Intuition, The Inward Arc: Healing in
psychologist and an adjunct faculty member at Psychotherapy and Spirituality, and Shadows of
Roosevelt University in Schaumburg, Illinois. She the Sacred: Seeing through Spiritual Illusions.
maintains a private practice in Naperville, Illinois, With her husband Roger Walsh, she also coedited
and she is a student and instructor of yoga. Paths Beyond Ego: The Transpersonal Vision. She
Jeremy D. Safran was awarded two honorary doctorates.
Jeremy D. Safran, PhD, is Professor of Psychology Helen Verdeli
at The New School for Social Research, Clinical Helen Verdeli, PhD, is an Associate Professor of
Professor at the New York University Postdoctoral Clinical Psychology at Teachers College, Columbia

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University. Her teaching and research focus on Physicians and Surgeons and the Mailman School
treatment and prevention of mood disorders with of Public Health, Columbia University. She is also
an emphasis on underresourced regions around Chief of Epidemiology at the New York State
the world. She serves on advisory committees for Psychiatric Institute. Myrna has won numerous
the World Health Organization, United Nations awards for her research on depression, and she has
nongovernmental organizations, and many other been elected to the National Academy of Medicine
international organizations. of the National Academy of Science.
Roger Walsh Marjorie C. Witty
Roger Walsh, MD, PhD, DHL, is professor of Marjorie C. Witty, PhD, is Professor and University
psychiatry, philosophy, and anthropology and a Fellow at the Illinois School of Professional
professor in the religious studies program at the Psychology, Argosy University, Chicago. She has
University of California at Irvine. He is a long-term taught and practiced client-centered therapy since
student, teacher, and researcher of contemplative 1974. She has published articles on the subject
practices. His relevant publications include of social influence and nondirectiveness in client-
Paths Beyond Ego, The World of Shamanism, and centered therapy and served on the editorial boards
Essential Spirituality: The Seven Central Practices. of The Person-Centered Journal and the Person-
He has also produced an American Psychological Centered and Experiential Psychotherapies journal.
Association psychotherapy video, Positive and
Transpersonal Approaches to Therapy. Irvin Yalom
Irvin Yalom, MD, is Emeritus Professor of
Danny Wedding Psychiatry at Stanford University and currently in
Danny Wedding, PhD, MPH, taught at numerous private practice in Palo Alto and San Francisco.
universities, including the University of Missouri, He has published widely, including textbooks
Alliant International University, Yonsei University (The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy
(South Korea), Chiang Mai University (Thailand), and Existential Psychotherapy), guides for
and the American University of Antigua. Danny has therapists (The Gift of Therapy and Staring at
published widely, and he edited PsycCRITIQUES, the Sun) and collections of psychotherapy tales
the American Psychological Association’s journal of (Love’s Executioner and Momma and the Meaning
book and film reviews, for 14 years. He is currently of Life) as well as several psychotherapy teaching
a Distinguished Consulting Faculty Member at novels (When Nietzsche Wept, Lying on the
Saybrook University in Oakland, California, and he Couch, The Schopenhauer Cure, and The Spinoza
edits the Hogrefe/Society of Clinical Psychology series Problem) and his 2017 memoir, Becoming Myself.
Advances in Psychotherapy: Evidence Based Practice.
Gary Yontef
Marjorie E. Weishaar
Gary Yontef, PhD, ABPP, is a cofounder of the
Marjorie E. Weishaar, PhD, is a Clinical Professor
Pacific Gestalt Institute, past president of the
of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at the Alpert
Gestalt Therapy Institute of Los Angeles, and an
Medical School of Brown University. She teaches
Associate Editor of Gestalt Review. He formerly
cognitive therapy to psychology and psychiatry
taught at UCLA but is now in private practice
residents. She has widely published in cognitive
in Los Angeles. Gary teaches and consults
therapy and has received several teaching awards.
internationally, and his publications about the
Myrna M. Weissman theory and practice of relational gestalt therapy
Myrna M. Weissman, PhD, is a Professor of include the book Awareness, Dialogue, and Process:
Epidemiology and Psychiatry at the College of Essays on Gestalt Therapy.

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Acknowledgments

Every new edition of a book is shaped and improved by the comments of those read-
ers who take time to provide feedback about previous editions. This book is no dif-
ferent, and I have benefited from the suggestions of literally hundreds of my students,
colleagues, and friends. I have been particularly vigilant about getting feedback from
those professors who use Current Psychotherapies as a text, and their comments help
shape each new edition. I also benefited from numerous suggestions from colleagues in
the Society of Clinical Psychology (Division 12 of the American Psychological Associa-
tion) during my presidential year and every year since. Barbara Cubic and Frank Dumont
helped with this new edition and made numerous important suggestions, and I’m grate-
ful for the common sense and good advice of Alexander Hancock, a Cengage content
developer, and Julie Martinez, my Cengage product manager.

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Preface

This new edition of Current Psychotherapies reflects a commitment to maintaining


the currency alluded to in the book’s title, and the text in its entirety provides a
comprehensive overview of the state of the art of psychotherapy in 2018. More than a
million students have used previous editions of this book, and Current Psychotherapies
has been translated into more than a dozen languages. One reviewer referred to the text
as “venerable.” I am proud of its success.
Ray Corsini originally persuaded me to work with him in 1976 while I was a grad-
uate student at the University of Hawaii, and recruiting the best possible authors and
maintaining the quality of Current Psychotherapies has been a consuming passion for the
past four decades. I’m convinced each new edition is better than the last.
A new author has been added for the chapter on Psychodynamic Psychotherapies,
and she has updated the chapter and added numerous descriptions of cutting-edge psy-
chodynamic research (e.g., a 2017 study documenting the equivalent effectiveness of
psychodynamic and cognitive behavioral treatments). Michael P. Maniacci and Laurie
Sackett-Maniacci, an Adlerian husband and wife team, have updated their chapter to
describe the seminal contributions Jon Carlson made before passing away while their
chapter was being written.
Marge Witty has made extensive updates to her chapter on Client Centered Psycho-
therapy, including a discussion of the paternalism inherent in cognitive behavior therapy
based on Proctor’s (2017) analysis and Ryan and Deci’s (2017) formulation of self-
determination theory. Debbie Joffe Ellis, widow of Albert Ellis, has updated the chapter
on REBT, expanded her discussion of the importance of gratitude, and included infor-
mation on accessing the REBT videotapes she developed for the American Psychologi-
cal Association.
My friend Martin Antony (Marty) is a consummate scholar, and his chapter in-
cludes numerous updates to recent findings in the behavior therapy literature, including
evidence documenting the importance of the relationship in cognitive behavior ther-
apy (Kazantzis, Dttilio, & Dobson, 2017). Marty also notes that the Society of Clini-
cal Psychology’s 2017 list of empirically supported psychological treatments “includes
80 treatments for particular disorders of which more than three quarters are behavioral
or cognitive-behavioral treatments.”
The chapter on Cognitive Therapy now includes a discussion of the relevance of
mindfulness training to the treatment of anxiety and depression in cognitive therapy.
Marjorie Weishaar and Aaron (Tim) Beck also allude to recent meta-analyses support-
ing the efficacy of cognitive behavior therapy. Getting to know and work with Marjorie
and Tim has been one of the most rewarding aspects of my work as editor of Current
Psychotherapies.
Ruthellen Josselson and Irvin Yalom have updated their chapter to include a discus-
sion of the move toward psychotherapy integration, and they introduce readers to two
important new books in existential psychotherapy: Jerry Shapiro’s Pragmatic Existential
Counseling and Psychotherapy: Intimacy, Intuition, and the Search for Meaning (2016)
and Orah Krug and Kirk Schneider’s Supervision Essentials for Existential-Humanistic
Therapy (2016).

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A new author, Charles Bowman, has been added to the chapter on Gestalt Therapy.
Dr. Bowman has made extensive changes to the previous chapter, making it current and
contemporary. I appreciate his erudite scholarship, especially his thoughtful explanation
of the limits of evidence in the Gestalt tradition. He notes “randomized controlled trials,
which are considered ‘strong evidence’ by researchers, decontextualize the patient, and
bear no resemblance to the clinical situation.”
Helen Verdeli and Myrna Weissman have updated their chapter on Interpersonal
Psychotherapy (IPT) to include a discussion of recent meta-analyses like that of Palpac-
uer and colleagues (2017), who “found IPT to be the most robust of psychotherapeutic
interventions, having the highest increase in response compared to the wait-list condi-
tion.” They also introduce readers to an important new book, Interpersonal Psychother-
apy for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (Markowitz, 2017).
The chapter on Family Therapy has a new coauthor, Mark Stanton, Provost at
Azusa Pacific University. Mark coauthored the ninth edition of the Goldenberg’s classic
text on Family Therapy, and he updated the Current Psychotherapies chapter on Family
Therapy to include multiple studies from 2016 and 2017, including a discussion of how
family therapists relate to the “unique problems inherent in the multitude of families
today that do not fit the historical model of the intact family.”
I am especially grateful to my good friend Roger Walsh, a visionary polymath, who
retitled and reworked his chapter on contemplative psychotherapies to focus on mind-
fulness and its relevance to all forms of psychotherapy. His new chapter, now titled
“Mindfulness and Other Contemplative Psychotherapies,” is a masterful review of a vast
and ever-growing literature. I found his new discussion of “The Shadow Side of Suc-
cess,” pointing out the problems associated with an unduly enthusiastic rush to embrace
mindfulness in psychotherapy, especially compelling. I’m confident there is no one in
the world better qualified than Roger to write this chapter.
Positive psychology is one of the newest and most exciting developments in contem-
porary psychotherapy, and two bona fide experts—Tayyab Rashid and Martin Seligman—
have updated their chapter on Positive Psychotherapy (PPT) for this new edition of
Current Psychotherapies. Their “Summary of PPT Outcome Studies” is a masterful over-
view of recent research, including seven studies published since 2016.
Working closely with one’s friends is one of the joys of editing a book like this, and
I consider John Norcross and Larry Beutler two of my finest friends. Both are prolific
authors, both are incredibly smart, and both write beautifully. At different times, all
three of us have served as President of the Society of Clinical Psychology, and I appreci-
ate their consummate scholarship and the care they took to update their chapter.
Lillian Comas-Díaz is another cherished friend, and one of the women I most ad-
mire. Lillian is bilingual and bicultural, and she knows more about multicultural psy-
chotherapy than anyone else I know. Her updated chapter addresses the importance of
humility in culturally relevant psychotherapy. In her characteristic way, the first draft of
her revised chapter failed to mention her newest book, Womanist and Mujerista Psychol-
ogies: Voices of Fire, Acts of Courage, co-edited with Thema Bryant-Davis (2016). It is an
important book, and I insisted it be included.

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Finally, it was once again a pleasure to work with Ken Pope in an effort to “wrap
things up.” We discuss a discouraging report on The State of Mental Health in Amer-
ica 2017 (Nguyen & Davis, 2017), provide updated numbers for the number of mental
health professionals working in a variety of different disciplines, and discuss the slowly
growing number of states that now allow psychologists with appropriate training to pre-
scribe psychotropic medications. In addition, there is a new discussion of the “Goldwa-
ter rule,” which prohibits many mental health professionals from diagnosing individuals
they have never formally assessed. This vexing issue seems especially relevant after the
2016 presidential election.
In a preface to an earlier edition, Raymond J. Corsini described six features of Cur-
rent Psychotherapies that have helped ensure the book’s utility and popularity. These
core principles have guided the development of each subsequent edition.

1. The chapters in this book describe the most important systems in the current prac-
tice of psychotherapy. Because psychotherapy is constantly evolving, deciding
what to put into new editions and what to take out demands a great deal of
research. The opinions of professors were central in shaping the changes we
have made.
2. The most competent available authors were recruited. Newly established systems
are described by their founders; older systems are covered by those best qualified
to describe them.
3. This book is highly disciplined. Each author follows an outline in which the var-
ious sections are limited in length and structure. The purpose of this feature
is to make it as convenient as possible to compare the systems by reading the
book “horizontally” (from section to section across the various systems) as well
as in the usual “vertical” manner (chapter to chapter). The major sections of
each chapter include an overview of the system being described, its history, a
discussion of the theory of personality that shaped the therapy, a detailed dis-
cussion of how psychotherapy using the system is actually practiced, and an
explanation of the various applications of the approach being described. In
addition, each therapy described is accompanied by a case study illustrating
the techniques and methods associated with the approach. Students interested
in more detailed case examples can read this book’s companion volume, Case
Studies in Psychotherapy (Wedding & Corsini, 2014); the case studies book
presents a exemplar case to accompany each of the core therapy chapters in
Current Psychotherapies. Those students who want to understand psychother-
apy in depth will benefit from reading both Current Psychotherapies and Case
Studies in Psychotherapy.
4. Current Psychotherapies is carefully edited. Every section is examined to make
certain that its contents are appropriate and clear. In the long history of this
text, only one chapter was ever accepted in its first draft. Some chapters have
been returned to their original authors as many as four times before finally being
accepted.

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*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HAPPY


ENDING ***
HAPPY ENDING
By HENRY KUTTNER

Out of the Future emerge the Robot and


Tharn—while James Kelvin fights them
blindly, knowing not friend from foe!

[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from


Thrilling Wonder Stories, August 1948.
Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that
the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]
The android uttered a protesting cry as Kelvin sent a wave of mental
energy at him

This is the way the story ended:


James Kelvin concentrated very hard on the thought of the chemist
with the red mustache who had promised him a million dollars. It was
simply a matter of tuning in on the man’s brain, establishing a
rapport. He had done it before. Now it was more important than ever
that he do it this one last time. He pressed the button on the gadget
the robot had given him, and thought hard.
Far off, across limitless distances, he found the rapport.
He clamped on the mental tight beam.
He rode it....
The red-mustached man looked up, gaped, and grinned delightedly.
“So there you are!” he said. “I didn’t hear you come in. Good grief,
I’ve been trying to find you for two weeks.”
“Tell me one thing quick,” Kelvin said. “What’s your name?”
“George Bailey. Incidentally, what’s yours?”
But Kelvin didn’t answer. He had suddenly remembered the other
thing the robot had told him about that gadget which established
rapport when he pressed the button. He pressed it now—and
nothing happened. The gadget had gone dead. Its task was finished,
which obviously meant he had at last achieved health, fame and
fortune. The robot had warned him, of course. The thing was set to
do one specialized job. Once he got what he wanted, it would work
no more.
So Kelvin got the million dollars.
And he lived happily ever after....

This is the middle of the story:


As he pushed aside the canvas curtain something—a carelessly
hung rope—swung down at his face, knocking the horn-rimmed
glasses askew. Simultaneously a vivid bluish light blazed into his
unprotected eyes. He felt a curious, sharp sense of disorientation, a
shifting motion that was almost instantly gone.
Things steadied before him. He let the curtain fall back into place,
making legible again the painted inscription: horoscopes—learn your
future—and he stood staring at the remarkable horomancer.
It was a—oh, impossible!
The robot said in a flat, precise voice, “You are James Kelvin. You
are a reporter. You are thirty years old, unmarried, and you came to
Los Angeles from Chicago today on the advice of your physician. Is
that correct?”

In his astonishment Kelvin called on the Deity. Then he settled his


glasses more firmly and tried to remember an exposé of charlatans
he had once written. There was some obvious way they worked
things like this, miraculous as it sounded.
The robot looked at him impassively out of its faceted eye.
“On reading your mind,” it continued in the pedantic voice, “I find this
is the year Nineteen Forty-nine. My plans will have to be revised. I
had meant to arrive in the year Nineteen Seventy. I will ask you to
assist me.”
Kelvin put his hands in his pockets and grinned.
“With money, naturally,” he said. “You had me going for a minute.
How do you do it, anyhow? Mirrors? Or like Maelzel’s chess player?”
“I am not a machine operated by a dwarf, nor am I an optical
illusion,” the robot assured him. “I am an artificially created living
organism, originating at a period far in your future.”
“And I’m not the sucker you take me for,” Kelvin remarked pleasantly.
“I came in here to—”
“You lost your baggage checks,” the robot said. “While wondering
what to do about it, you had a few drinks and took the Wilshire bus at
exactly—exactly eight-thirty-five post meridian.”
“Lay off the mind-reading,” Kelvin said. “And don’t tell me you’ve
been running this joint very long with a line like that. The cops would
be after you. If you’re a real robot, ha, ha.”
“I have been running this joint,” the robot said, “for approximately five
minutes. My predecessor is unconscious behind that chest in the
corner. Your arrival here was sheer coincidence.” It paused very
briefly, and Kelvin had the curious impression that it was watching to
see if the story so far had gone over well.
The impression was curious because Kelvin had no feeling at all that
there was a man in the large, jointed figure before him. If such a
thing as a robot were possible, he would have believed implicitly that
he confronted a genuine specimen. Such things being impossible, he
waited to see what the gimmick would be.
“My arrival here was also accidental,” the robot informed him. “This
being the case, my equipment will have to be altered slightly. I will
require certain substitute mechanisms. For that, I gather as I read
your mind, I will have to engage in your peculiar barter system of
economics. In a word, coinage or gold or silver certificates will be
necessary. Thus I am—temporarily—a horomancer.”
“Sure, sure,” Kelvin said. “Why not a simple mugging? If you’re a
robot, you could do a super-mugging job with a quick twist of the
gears.”
“It would attract attention. Above all, I require secrecy. As a matter of
fact, I am—” The robot paused, searched Kelvin’s brain for the right
phrase, and said, “—on the lam. In my era, time-traveling is strictly
forbidden, even by accident, unless government-sponsored.”
There was a fallacy there somewhere, Kelvin thought, but he
couldn’t quite spot it. He blinked at the robot intently. It looked pretty
unconvincing.
“What proof do you need?” the creature asked. “I read your brain the
minute you came in, didn’t I? You must have felt the temporary
amnesia as I drew out the knowledge and then replaced it.”
“So that’s what happened,” Kelvin said. He took a cautious step
backward. “Well, I think I’ll be getting along.”
“Wait,” the robot commanded. “I see you have begun to distrust me.
Apparently you now regret having suggested a mugging job. You
fear I may act on the suggestion. Allow me to reassure you. It is true
that I could take your money and assure secrecy by killing you, but I
am not permitted to kill humans. The alternative is to engage in the
barter system. I can offer you something valuable in return for a
small amount of gold. Let me see.” The faceted gaze swept around
the tent, dwelt piercingly for a moment on Kelvin. “A horoscope,” the
robot said. “It is supposed to help you achieve health, fame and
fortune. Astrology, however, is out of my line. I can merely offer a
logical scientific method of attaining the same results.”
“Uh-huh,” Kelvin said skeptically. “How much? And why haven’t you
used that method?”
“I have other ambitions,” the robot said in a cryptic manner. “Take
this.” There was a brief clicking. A panel opened in the metallic
chest. The robot extracted a small, flat case and handed it to Kelvin,
who automatically closed his fingers on the cold metal.
“Be careful. Don’t push that button until—”
But Kelvin had pushed it....

He was driving a figurative car that had got out of control. There was
somebody else inside his head. There was a schizophrenic, double-
tracked locomotive that was running wild and his hand on the throttle
couldn’t slow it down an instant. His mental steering-wheel had
snapped.
Somebody else was thinking for him!
Not quite a human being. Not quite sane, probably, from Kelvin’s
standards. But awfully sane from his own. Sane enough to have
mastered the most intricate principles of non-Euclidean geometry in
the nursery.
The senses get synthesized in the brain into a sort of common
language, a master-tongue. Part of it was auditory, part pictorial, and
there were smells and tastes and tactile sensations that were
sometimes familiar and sometimes spiced with the absolutely alien.
And it was chaotic.
Something like this, perhaps....
“—Big Lizards getting too numerous this season—tame threvvars
have the same eyes not on Callisto though—vacation soon—
preferably galactic—solar system claustrophobic—byanding
tomorrow if square rootola and upsliding three—”
But that was merely the word-symbolism. Subjectively, it was far
more detailed and very frightening. Luckily, reflex had lifted Kelvin’s
finger from the button almost instantly, and he stood there
motionless, shivering slightly.
He was afraid now.
The robot said, “You should not have begun the rapport until I
instructed you. Now there will be danger. Wait.” His eye changed
color. “Yes ... there is ... Tharn, yes. Beware of Tharn.”
“I don’t want any part of it,” Kelvin said quickly. “Here, take this thing
back.”
“Then you will be unprotected against Tharn. Keep the device. It will,
as I promised, ensure your health, fame and fortune, far more
effectively than a—a horoscope.”
“No, thanks. I don’t know how you managed that trick—sub-sonics,
maybe, but I don’t—”
“Wait,” the robot said. “When you pressed that button, you were in
the mind of someone who exists very far in the future. It created a
temporal rapport. You can bring about that rapport any time you
press the button.”
“Heaven forfend,” Kelvin said, still sweating a little.
“Consider the opportunities. Suppose a troglodyte of the far past had
access to your brain? He could achieve anything he wanted.”
It had become important, somehow, to find a logical rebuttal to the
robot’s arguments. “Like St. Anthony—or was it Luther?—arguing
with the devil?” Kelvin thought dizzily. His headache was worse, and
he suspected he had drunk more than was good for him. But he
merely said:
“How could a troglodyte understand what’s in my brain? He couldn’t
apply the knowledge without the same conditioning I’ve had.”
“Have you ever had sudden and apparently illogical ideas?
Compulsions? So that you seem forced to think of certain things,
count up to certain numbers, work out particular problems? Well, the
man in the future on whom my device is focused doesn’t know he’s
en rapport with you, Kelvin. But he’s vulnerable to compulsions. All
you have to do is concentrate on a problem and then press the
button. Your rapport will be compelled—illogically, from his viewpoint
—to solve that problem. And you’ll be reading his brain. You’ll find
out how it works. There are limitations, you’ll learn those too. And the
device will ensure health, wealth and fame for you.”
“It would ensure anything, if it really worked that way. I could do
anything. That’s why I’m not buying!”
“I said there were limitations. As soon as you’ve successfully
achieved health, fame, and fortune, the device will become useless.
I’ve taken care of that. But meanwhile you can use it to solve all your
problems by tapping the brain of the more intelligent specimen in the
future. The important point is to concentrate on your problems before
you press the button. Otherwise you may get more than Tharn on
your track.”
“Tharn? What—”
“I think an—an android,” the robot said, looking at nothing. “An
artificial human ... However, let us consider my own problem. I need
a small amount of gold.”
“So that’s the kicker,” Kelvin said, feeling oddly relieved. He said, “I
haven’t got any.”
“Your watch.”
Kelvin jerked his arm so that his wrist-watch showed. “Oh, no. That
watch cost plenty.”
“All I need is the gold-plating,” the robot said, shooting out a reddish
ray from its eye. “Thank you.” The watch was now dull gray metal.
“Hey!” Kelvin cried.
“If you use the rapport device, your health, fame and fortune will be
assured,” the robot said rapidly. “You will be as happy as any man of
this era can be. It will solve all your problems—including Tharn. Wait
a minute.” The creature took a backward step and disappeared
behind a hanging Oriental rug that had never been east of Peoria.
There was silence.
Kelvin looked from his altered watch to the flat, enigmatic object in
his palm. It was about two inches by two inches, and no thicker than
a woman’s vanity-case, and there was a sunken push-button on its
side.
He dropped it into his pocket and took a few steps forward. He
looked behind the pseudo-Oriental rug, to find nothing except
emptiness and a flapping slit cut in the canvas wall of the booth. The
robot, it seemed, had taken a powder. Kelvin peered out through the
slit. There was the light and sound of Ocean Park amusement pier,
that was all. And the silvered, moving blackness of the Pacific
Ocean, stretching to where small lights showed Malibu far up the
invisible curve of the coastal cliffs.
So he came back inside the booth and looked around. A fat man in a
swami’s costume was unconscious behind the carved chest the
robot had indicated. His breath, plus a process of deduction, told
Kelvin that the man had been drinking.
Not knowing what else to do, Kelvin called on the Deity again. He
found suddenly that he was thinking about someone or something
called Tharn, who was an android.
Horomancy ... time ... rapport ... no! Protective disbelief slid like plate
armor around his mind. A practical robot couldn’t be made. He knew
that. He’d have heard—he was a reporter, wasn’t he?
Sure he was.
Desiring noise and company, he went along to the shooting gallery
and knocked down a few ducks. The flat case burned in his pocket.
The dully burnished metal of his wrist-watch burned in his memory.
The remembrance of that drainage from his brain, and the immediate
replacement burned in his mind. Presently bar whiskey burned in his
stomach.
He’d left Chicago because of sinusitis, recurrent and annoying.
Ordinary sinusitis. Not schizophrenia or hallucinations or accusing
voices coming from the walls. Not because he had been seeing bats
or robots. That thing hadn’t really been a robot. It all had a perfectly
natural explanation. Oh, sure.
Health, fame and fortune. And if—
THARN!
The thought crashed with thunderbolt impact into his head.
And then another thought: I am going nuts!
A silent voice began to mutter insistently, over and over. “Tharn—
Tharn—Tharn—Tharn—”
And another voice, the voice of sanity and safety, answered it and
drowned it out. Half aloud, Kelvin muttered:
“I’m James Noel Kelvin. I’m a reporter—special features, leg work,
rewrite. I’m thirty years old, unmarried, and I came to Los Angeles
today and lost my baggage checks and—and I’m going to have
another drink and find a hotel. Anyhow, the climate seems to be
curing my sinusitis.”
Tharn, the muffled drum-beat said almost below the threshold of
realization. Tharn, Tharn.
Tharn.
He ordered another drink and reached in his pocket for a coin. His
hand touched the metal case. And simultaneously he felt a light
pressure on his shoulder.
Instinctively he glanced around. It was a seven-fingered, spidery
hand tightening—hairless, without nails—and white as smooth ivory.
The one, overwhelming necessity that sprang into Kelvin’s mind was
a simple longing to place as much space as possible between
himself and the owner of that disgusting hand. It was a vital
requirement, but one difficult of fulfilment, a problem that excluded
everything else from Kelvin’s thoughts. He knew, vaguely, that he
was gripping the flat case in his pocket as though that could save
him, but all he was thinking was:
I’ve got to get away from here.
The monstrous, alien thoughts of someone in the future spun him
insanely along their current. It could not have taken a moment while
that skilled, competent, trained mind, wise in the lore of an
unthinkable future, solved the random problem that had come so
suddenly, with such curious compulsion.

Three methods of transportation were simultaneously clear to Kelvin.


Two he discarded; motorplats were obviously inventions yet to come,
and quirling—involving, as it did, a sensory coil-helmet—was beyond
him. But the third method—
Already the memory was fading. And that hand was still tightening
on his shoulder. He clutched at the vanishing ideas and desperately
made his brain and his muscles move along the unlikely direction the
future-man had visualized.
And he was out in the open, a cold night wind blowing on him, still in
a sitting position, but with nothing but empty air between his spine
and the sidewalk.
He sat down suddenly.
Passersby on the corner of Hollywood Boulevard and Cahuenga
were not much surprised at the sight of a dark, lanky man sitting by
the curb. Only one woman had noticed Kelvin’s actual arrival, and
she knew when she was well off. She went right on home.
Kelvin got up laughing with soft hysteria. “Teleportation,” he said.
“How did I work it? It’s gone ... Hard to remember afterward, eh? I’ll
have to start carrying a notebook again.”
And then—“But what about Tharn?”
He looked around, frightened. Reassurance came only after half an
hour had passed without additional miracles. Kelvin walked along the
Boulevard, keeping a sharp lookout. No Tharn, though.
Occasionally he slid a hand into his pocket and touched the cold
metal of the case. Health, wealth and fortune. Why, he could—
But he did not press the button. Too vivid was the memory of that
shocking, alien disorientation he had felt. The mind, the experiences,
the habit-patterns of the far future were uncomfortably strong.
He would use the little case again—oh, yes. But there was no hurry.
First, he’d have to work out a few angles.
His disbelief was completely gone....
Tharn showed up the next night and scared the daylights out of
Kelvin again. Prior to that, the reporter had failed to find his baggage
tickets, and was only consoled by the two hundred bucks in his
wallet. He took a room—paying in advance—at a medium-good
hotel, and began wondering how he might apply his pipe-line to the
future. Very sensibly, he decided to continue a normal life until
something developed. At any rate, he’d have to make a few
connections. He tried the Times, the Examiner, the News, and some
others. But these things develop slowly, except in the movies. That
night Kelvin was in his hotel room when his unwelcome guest
appeared.
It was, of course, Tharn.
He wore a very large white turban, approximately twice the size of
his head. He had a dapper black mustache, waxed downward at the
tips like the mustache of a mandarin, or a catfish. He stared urgently
at Kelvin out of the bathroom mirror.
Kelvin had been wondering whether or not he needed a shave
before going out to dinner. He was rubbing his chin thoughtfully at
the moment Tharn put in an appearance, and there was a
perceptible mental lag between occurrence and perception, so that
to Kelvin it seemed that he himself had mysteriously sprouted a long
moustache. He reached for his upper lip. It was smooth. But in the
glass the black waxed hairs quivered as Tharn pushed his face up
against the surface of the mirror.
It was so shockingly disorienting, somehow, that Kelvin was quite
unable to think at all. He took a quick step backward. The edge of
the bathtub caught him behind the knees and distracted him
momentarily, fortunately for his sanity. When he looked again there
was only his own appalled face reflected above the wash-bowl. But
after a second or two the face seemed to develop a cloud of white
turban, and mandarin-like whiskers began to form sketchily.
Kelvin clapped a hand to his eyes and spun away. In about fifteen
seconds he spread his fingers enough to peep through them at the
glass. He kept his palm pressed desperately to his upper lip, in some
wild hope of inhibiting the sudden sprouting of a moustache. What
peeped back at him from the mirror looked like himself. At least, it
had no turban, and it did not wear horn-rimmed glasses. He risked
snatching his hand away for a quick look, and clapped it in place
again just in time to prevent Tharn from taking shape in the glass.

Still shielding his face, he went unsteadily into the bedroom and took
the flat case out of his coat pocket. But he didn’t press the button
that would close a mental synapse between two incongruous eras.
He didn’t want to do that again, he realized. More horrible, somehow,
than what was happening now was the thought of reentering that
alien brain.
He was standing before the bureau, and in the mirror one eye looked
out at him between reflected fingers. It was a wild eye behind the
gleaming spectacle-lens, but it seemed to be his own. Tentatively he
took his hand away....
This mirror showed more of Tharn. Kelvin wished it hadn’t. Tharn
was wearing white knee-boots of some glittering plastic. Between
them and the turban he wore nothing whatever except a minimum of
loin-cloth, also glittering plastic. Tharn was very thin, but he looked
active. He looked quite active enough to spring right into the hotel
room. His skin was whiter than his turban, and his hands had seven
fingers each, all right.
Kelvin abruptly turned away, but Tharn was resourceful. The dark
window made enough of a reflecting surface to show a lean, loin-
clothed figure. The feet showed bare, and they were less normal
than Tharn’s hands. And the polished brass of a lamp-base gave
back the picture of a small, distorted face not Kelvin’s own.
Kelvin found a corner without reflecting surfaces and pushed into it,
his hands shielding his face. He was still holding the flat case.
Oh, fine, he thought bitterly. Everything’s got a string on it. What
good will this rapport gadget do me if Tharn’s going to show up every
day? Maybe I’m only crazy. I hope so.
Something would have to be done unless Kelvin was prepared to go
through life with his face buried in his hands. The worst of it was that
Tharn had a haunting look of familiarity. Kelvin discarded a dozen
possibilities, from reincarnation to the déjà vu phenomenon, but—
He peeped through his hands, in time to see Tharn raising a
cylindrical gadget of some sort and leveling it like a gun. That
gesture formed Kelvin’s decision. He’d have to do something, and
fast. So, concentrating on the problem—I want out!—he pressed the
button in the surface of the flat case.
And instantly the teleportation method he had forgotten was perfectly
clear to him. Other matters, however, were obscure. The smells—
someone was thinking—were adding up to a—there was no word for
that, only a shocking visio-auditory ideation that was simply dizzying.
Someone named Three Million and Ninety Pink had written a new
flatch. And there was the physical sensation of licking a twenty-four-
dollar stamp and sticking it on a postcard.
But, most important, the man in the future had had—or would have—
a compulsion to think about the teleportation method, and as Kelvin
snapped back into his own mind and time, he instantly used that
method....
He was falling.
Icy water smacked him hard. Miraculously he kept his grip on the flat
case. He had a whirling vision of stars in a night sky, and the
phosphorescent sheen of silvery light on a dark sea. Then brine
stung his nostrils.
Kelvin had never learned how to swim.
As he went down for the last time, bubbling a scream, he literally
clutched at the proverbial straw he was holding. His finger pushed
the button down again. There was no need to concentrate on the
problem; he couldn’t think of anything else.
Mental chaos, fantastic images—and the answer.
It took concentration, and there wasn’t much time left. Bubbles
streamed up past his face. He felt them, but he couldn’t see them. All
around, pressing in avidly, was the horrible coldness of the salt
water....
But he did know the method now, and he knew how it worked. He
thought along the lines the future mind had indicated. Something
happened. Radiation—that was the nearest familiar term—poured
out of his brain and did peculiar things to his lung-tissue. His blood
cells adapted themselves....
He was breathing water, and it was no longer strangling him.
But Kelvin had also learned that this emergency adaptation could not
be maintained for very long. Teleportation was the answer to that.
And surely he could remember the method now. He had actually
used it to escape from Tharn only a few minutes ago.

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