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Following Freud's theory of anxiety, Ruesch and Prestwood were able to demonstrate in an experimental situation the transmission of anxiety through verbal and visual cues to a group of originally uninvolved and neutral observers. They were also able to show that one of the chief methods of mastering anxiety is to express it in an interpersonal situation.