ABSTRACT
Virtually every theorist in personality and psychopathology has found it necessary to incorporate anxiety, in one form or another, in formulations with regard to the acquisition, stability, and change of human behavior. The volume of research on anxiety has few topical rivals in psychology as far as sheer bulk is
^concerned. Further, anxiety has occupied this central position for 50 years. Consider the following assessments of the importance of anxiety which span both decades and noted medical and behavioral scientists:
Enjoying such importance, precedence and tenure, anxiety surely must be one of the few constants in the highly changeable, often fickle discipline of psychology that has seen many of its most touted concepts fade from importance.
