With this book, Becker hopes to present “…a unified, universal college curriculum…that provides modern man with the necessary unitary, critical world view that will give him maximum strength, flexibility, and freedom for solving the basic problems of human adaptation.” In previous works, Becker consistently argued that in the psychosocial perspective, problems of mental health are above all else problems of education. Human beings are educated by anxiety during the Oedipal transition to view the world in certain more or less fixed ways. While this is necessary at the time, these more or less fixed ways of viewing the world continue on as the content of the individual unconscious long after they continue to be useful. This leads people to a crippled ability to encounter new situations for what they really are, with all of the possibilities for freedom inherent in the novel. We rather continue to see in the novel all of the fears, consternations, dread and trepidations of earlier situations. The psychiatric solution to this problem is the reeducation of individual analysis. But this takes too long and is too expensive to ever be a social policy solution. The social policy solution is a public education program which schools people to recognize as much as possible the restrictions they have imposed upon themselves and others through habitual ways of looking at human possibilities. This is Becker’s freedom curriculum, which is the educational extension of his program of a moral social science.