The Empirical Nature of Worry
ALAN CHALLMAN M.D.1
1 Clinical Professor Emeritus, Department of Psychiatry, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, and is in private practice at 1941 Medical Arts Building, Minneapolis, Minn. 55402
For many years the author has been interested in understanding the ubiquitous human practice of imposing suffering upon oneself. Worry is a good example of self-inflicted suffering; it is so commonly experienced that it provides anyone who cares to introspect a convenient opportunity for further self-understanding and thereby a reduction in personal suffering.
