From one of my favorites
"Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom". - K

And some interesting thoughts from May:
www.intuition.org/txt/may.htm

Thanks for pointing out what you refer to as "incorrect." No offence taken...since I really don't know what you mean by that.. I can think of many ways in which what i wrote is not very accurate to the notion that I am getting at.. but i do not want to paralize my expressions..or inquiry.

I suppose a more satisfying statement to me would be "that I have anxieties that I suspect to be similar to what I understand to be existential anxiety" Although, for me, it is not so much about radical freedom but "death."

As someone who was raised in a very controlling way, I'm adverse to limits, constraints, control etc.. so radical freedom is very liberating to me.. that does not bring me anxiety whatsoever.. (at least not yet).

Yes! i am like you in the notion of keeping the tool box open!

Again, thanks everyone for their thoughts.. (including wildapache)

And, though I consider myself an existentialist of the Frankl variety ...I am even more enamoured of the post-cognitive approaches, such as White and Epston's constructivist narrative therapy, which takes the problem out of the person. This is a much more humane and efficacious way of dealing with things such as anxiety.

All these ism's are fun to debate, but we need to face the fact that most are shamefully out-of-date and we should not be giving them the status as treatment modes that they currently hold.

Anything pre-1970 should be suspect. We should discuss them for historical purposes only.

If we are not considering social constructionism and something akin to family systems, then we are stuck in an inefficient (ODWEMT: Old dead European white male tradition) which is also a piece of the "medical model" which places the "disease" in the person, rather than in that person's environment, relationships and influences.

The person cannot be interpreted outside his realm of influence (his world)
Nor can his world be interpreted without considering his influence :
Social constructionism

[add to this that both are always changing and you have postmodernism]

* and it depresses and pisses me off that in the 21st century my spell checker does not recognize the terms : constructivist, constructionism or postmodern * !!!!