Lawrence L. LeShan

We therapists care very much about our profession and work hard at it. However, the overall outcome is often not what we wish. We get some excellent results, but a number of our patients do not make the progress we hope for them. One reason for these disheartening results is our belief that there is a best method for therapy, the method in which we were trained, which we use for all or nearly all of our patients. We all know that there is no one-size-fits-all psychotherapy, yet we generally continue to act as if there is and that, by a curious coincidence, it is ours. Our myopia ignores the diversity of the people who come to see us, some of whom would respond best to one kind of therapy, some to another. Another assumption that lowers our success rate stems from psychotherapy's mixed heritage. Because our history comes half from medicine (with its emphasis on curing) and half from the wise men and women of the tribes as well as the spiritual directors of organized religion (with their emphasis on healing), we often confuse the two. Curing, which involves the easing of psychological or physical pain, needs one approach. Healing, which concerns helping one grow in his or her individual way in order that the person may better cope with present and future problems, calls for another. Using vivid and detailed clinical examples, Beyond Technique shows how to change to get the therapeutic goals you want. Dr. LeShan demonstrates the means to create individual psychotherapy tailored to each patients's needs. With this perspective, LeShan brings psychotherapy into the present, revealing its improved form for the future.

Lawrence LeShan and Henry Margenau argue that Western culture's precise and literal systems to explain reality were developed to accommodate the human need to control the environment, but that explainations fall short because they do not include non-physical.

The Assassin - short story by Robert Silverberg The Innocents' Refuge - short story by Theodore L. Thomas The Good Provider - short story by Marion Gross The Immortal Bard - short story by Isaac Asimov The Figure - short story by Edward Grendon

Little Lost Robot - novelette by Isaac Asimov Tomorrow's Children - novelette by Poul Anderson and F. N. Waldrop [as by Poul Anderson] Child's Play - novelette by William Tenn Time and Time Again - short story by H. Beam Piper Tiny and the Monster - novelette by Theodore Sturgeon E for Effort - novelette by T. L. Sherred Letter to Ellen - short story by Chan Davis The Figure - short story by Lawrence L. LeShan [as by Edward Grendon] With Folded Hands ... - novelette by Jack Williamson The Fires Within - short story by Arthur C. Clarke Zero Hour - short story by Ray Bradbury Hobbyist - novelette by Eric Frank Russell Exit the Professor - short story by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Lewis Padgett] Thunder and Roses - novelette by Theodore Sturgeon

Ballade of an Artificial Satellite - poem by Poul Anderson The Fun They Had - juvenile - short story by Isaac Asimov Men Are Different - short story by Alan Bloch The Ambassadors - short story by Anthony Boucher The Weapon - short story by Fredric Brown Random Sample - short story by T. P. Caravan Oscar - short story by Cleve Cartmill The Mist - short story by Peter Grainger [as by Peter Cartur] Teething Ring - short story by James Causey The Haunted Space Suit - short story by Arthur C. Clarke (variant of Who's There? 1958) Stair Trick - short story by Mildred Clingerman Unwelcome Tenant - short story by Roger Dee The Mathematicians - short story by Arthur Feldman The Third Level - short story by Jack Finney Beautiful, Beautiful, Beautiful! - short story by Stuart Friedman The Figure - short story by Lawrence L. LeShan [as by Edward Grendon] The Rag Thing - short story by Donald A. Wollheim [as by David Grinnell] The Good Provider - short story by Marion Gross Columbus Was a Dope - short story by Robert A. Heinlein Texas Week - short story by Albert Hernhuter Hilda - short story by H. B. Hickey The Choice - short story by Wayland Hilton-Young [as by W. Hilton-Young] Not with a Bang - short story by Damon Knight The Altar at Midnight - short story by C. M. Kornbluth A Bad Day for Sales - short story by Fritz Leiber Who's Cribbing? - short story by Jack Lewis Spectator Sport - short story by John D. MacDonald The Cricket Ball - short story by Avro Manhattan Double-Take - short story by Winston K. Marks Prolog - short story by John P. McKnight The Available Data on the Worp Reaction - short story by Lion Miller Narapoia - short story by Alan Nelson Tiger by the Tail - short story by Alan E. Nourse Counter Charm - short story by Peter Phillips The Fly - short story by Arthur Porges The Business, As Usual - short story by Mack Reynolds Two Weeks in August - short story by Frank M. Robinson See? - short story by Edward G. Robles, Jr. Appointment at Noon - short story by Eric Frank Russell We Don't Want Any Trouble - short story by James H. Schmitz Built Down Logically - short story by Howard Schoenfeld An Egg a Month from All Over - short story by Margaret St. Clair [as by Idris Seabright] The Perfect Woman - short story by Robert Sheckley The Hunters - short story by Walt Sheldon The Martian and the Magician - short story by Evelyn E. Smith Barney - short story by Will Stanton Talent - short story by Theodore Sturgeon Project Hush - short story by William Tenn The Great Judge - short story by A. E. van Vogt Emergency Landing - short story by Ralph Williams Obviously Suicide - short story by S. Fowler Wright Six Haiku - poem by Karen Anderson