Robert W. Firestone - Psychological Defenses in Everyday Life

Acknowledgments

T HE AUTHORS WOULD LIKE TO EXPRESS THEIR APPRECIATIONto Jeremiah Kaplan, who had faith in the value of this book in spite of the challenge it presents to psychological defenses. We would like to thank Cecilia Hunt, whose editing helped make this book more readable by a wide audience.

We are also grateful to Barry Langberg and Tamsen Firestone, who contributed their ideas to the organization and rewriting of the manuscript; to our agent, Frank Tobe; and to the many typists and proofreaders who worked with our word-processing consultants to complete the final draft: Linda Clark, Eileen Parkes, Jan Brown, Susan Short, Anne Baker, Sara Bartlett, Patty Lubin, Sonya Rousso, Robyn Parr, Marcia Mirman, Catherine Cagan, Scott Cranmer, Richard Catlett, and Tom Chester. And, finally, our thanks to Linda Benvin for all her help during the production of this book.

We would also like to express our appreciation to Norma Fox of Human Sciences Press and Ana Perez of The Glendon Association for their support and help in completing the revised edition.

The authors gratefully acknowledge permission to reprint the following:

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from The Female Eunuchby Germaine Greer. Copyright 1970, 1971.

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from Prisoner of Love by Leo Robin, Clarence Gaskill, and Russ Columbo. Copyright 1931 Edwin H. Morris & Company, A Division of MPL Communications, Inc. Copyright renewed 1959 Edwin H. Morris & Company, A Division of MPL Communications, Inc. International Copyright Secured. All rights reserved. Used by permission.

from Equusby Peter Shaffer. Copyright 1973 by Peter Shaffer. Reprinted by permission of Atheneum Publishers, an imprint of Macmillan Publishing Company.