Dr. Beck also writes about hostile responses as part of evolutionary adaptation and fitness but not in great depth. His discussion of the anger-prone patient makes no reference to borderline disorders. The concept of distal origins, whether evolutionary or residing in certain personality types, is peripheral to Dr. Beck’s prime thesis. He suggests that therapists deal with angry behaviors only in the present. There are, of course, therapists who want to do both—tracing angry interactions to roots in individual experience as well as identifying the contemporary cascade of thoughts from hurt to an irresistible need for justice. This book may not be a revelation to all readers/therapists, but it serves well to underscore the practical helpfulness of a cognitive mode with a particular form of dysfunctional behavior.