ABSTRACT

Anxiety, the most fundamental and universal of all nervous and mental symptoms, has no reliable, magical cure. The truth of the matter is that before we can rely upon fully curing any nervous or mental symptom, even anxiety, we must understand it. That is the tenet of all science and the essence of the scientific method. In attempting to understand anxiety we are led to investigate it. The more we investigate the more our investigations lead us into wider fields—unbelievably wide fields—until eventually we find that we have the whole problem of the universe to deal with.