Topics include:: The size and burden of Anxiety worldwide:: An update, Patterns of comorbidity and the structure of anxiety and mental disorders revisited:: Lumping or splitting?, Anxiety and anxiety disorders in children and adolescents:: Developmental issues, precursor conditions, etc., Anxiety disorder - all the same? Anxiety as fear circuitry disorders Anxiety disorders - all the same? Genetic and psychoneuroendocrinological mechanisms, First line treatment:: A critical appraisal of CBT developments and alternatives, Panic/ Agoraphobia, GAD, Social Phobia, Specific phobias, stress-related disorders and PTSD, OCD and related disorders, Public Health Perspective:: Why did we fail?