The author, professor of Clinical Psychology at Indiana University School of Medicine, offers an elementary and somewhat narrow view of the problem of anxiety. The first three chapters consider terminology, theories of anxiety deriving from psychoanalysis and experimental psychology, and defenses against anxiety. The references to psychoanalysis reflect grave misunderstanding of Freud's views and a total ignorance of modern ego psychology. The balance of the book is concerned with methods of experimental measurements of anxiety and their application to learning, cognitive processes, and personality dimensions. Even in the author's own field of competence the treatment is superficial and uncritical. Committed to the premise that only the experimental is scientific, Levitt dismisses other methods of data collection, including 'mere observation', as unworthy of serious consideration. As a result he often neglects to consider what it is that is being 'measured' as 'anxiety'. The net result is a work that has little to offer a psychoanalyst, and far less to offer a psychologist.