It has been a pleasure to assemble this month's issue of CNS Spectrums about cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) for anxiety disorders in which the successful treatments of five disorders are discussed. As is evident from the five papers in this issue, most patients with pathologic anxiety can be helped with available treatment, either short-term CBT or medication. Also apparent in these papers is that the work has not been completed: some patients do not benefit from the available treatments at all, and most who do respond still remain somewhat symptomatic.