David H. Barlow's collection of key papers on the nature of anxiety and mood disorders has led to new treatments for the emotional disorders, most notably a new transdiagnostic psychological approach that has been positively evaluated and widely accepted.Clinical psychology will benefit from this collection of papers with connecting commentary.

III: Nature, Diagnosis and Etiology of Anxiety and Related Disorders 14.Disorders of emotion. 15. The development of anxiety: the role of control in the early environment 16. A modern learning theory perspective on the etiology of panic disorder. 17. A proposal for a dimensional classification system based on the shared features of the DSM-IV anxiety and mood disorders: Implications for assessment and treatment. 18. The Nature, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Neuroticism Back to the Future. IV: The Ascendance of Evidence-Based Psychological Treatments 19. Health care policy, psychotherapy research, and the future of psychotherapy. 20. The dissemination and implementation of evidence based psychological treatments: a review of current efforts. 21.Direct-to-consumer marketing of evidence-based psychological interventions: Introduction. 22.Evidence-Based Psychological Treatments: An Update and a Way Forward.