ABSTRACT
The most typical, protracted, anxiety states seem to be those associated with a fear of death, all of which belong essentially to the involution group. In looking over a large material it was striking to find how regularly other kinds of anxiety states were transitory. In fact, up to late middle age, anxiety seems to be a mood merely of onsets or interruptions in manic, depressive, stuporous or perplexity psychoses. Since the involution cases have already been considered, the clinical material still to be discussed may be exemplified by brief resumés of some anxiety phases initial to more protracted psychoses.
