Face, accept, float, let time pass: Claire Weekes' anxiety cure holds true decades on

A trailblazing Australian doctor stared down professional resistance to revolutionise the way we treat anxiety. Along the way she became a best-selling author and one of the first self-help gurus.

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Face, accept, float, let time pass: Claire Weekes' anxiety cure holds true decades on 9f4f5794d868263cf785d19461e3a873a851f505

On October 23, 1977, a diminutive Australian stepped onto the stage in New York. The audience saw an elderly woman whose regular uniform was a tweed skirt, twinset, spectacles, and sensible brown lace-up shoes with low heels. Her dark hair was permed and for adornment, she wore a string of pearls. At the age of 74, Dr Claire Weekes was the guest speaker at the 18th Annual Fall Conference of the Association for the Advancement of Psychotherapy. She was an unusual choice for this gathering, as she ranked as an unqualified outsider.

However, Weekes had one measurable claim to fame: her books on anxiety were a global sensation, hitting the bestseller lists in the US and the UK from the early 1960s onwards. She’d found a popular audience by identifying and describing the havoc nervous illness could create, and explaining and treating it in a fresh way. Weekes had been invited to address this professional association despite divided opinion over her approach. Many psychiatrists had heard of her methods from their patients, and a number accepted that some patients they had treated unsuccessfully had read her books and felt, if not entirely cured, then on the way to recovery.

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Face, accept, float, let time pass: Claire Weekes' anxiety cure holds true decades on

Face, accept, float, let time pass: Claire Weekes' anxiety cure holds true decades on

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