'Malignant Misprision' explores the potentiality of socially engaged, interactive installation in anxiety management. This is achieved through the incorporation of elements inspired by therapies, both remedial and otherwise, that the artist finds personally efficacious in anxiety management, in ways which may be translatable for the use of others. Catherine Thickett has drawn inspiration from a positive interpretation of nihilism, and holds great confidence in the belief that through the traversal of the three stages of anxiety, individuals may embrace the utopian nature of nihilism and enable themselves to carve a future dissociated from anxiety and prescribed societal roles.