| This project was possible because of my informants: the women who taught me what it is like to live with and overcome self-injury. My first thanks go to them for their honesty, courage, patience, and trust, and for allowing me to be their scribe. Several of them became my editors as well, critiquing the chapters they helped create and patiently allowing me to call them again and again, long after the original interviews, to check on uncertainties. They also became role models because of their fortitude and lack of self-pity. I regret that they cannot be thanked by name. |
| As always, Mary Waggener, Charles Hyman, Jack Hyman, Peggy Schoditsch, and Sonja Wetzsteon provided interest, encouragement, and sensitive chapter critiques. Andee Rubin, long-time friend and "personal editor," allowed me once again to benefit from her skill in chapter structure and organization, and to enjoy her empathic interest. My special thanks also to Sarah Shaw, Susan Lewis, and Barent Walsh with whom I meet monthly to discuss aspects of self-injury and our respective work on the subject. We provide each other with challenges, disagreements, endless questions, critiques of chapter and article drafts, and opportunities to talk about self-injury, not a topic our friends or colleagues necessarily want to discuss. Susan and Barent critiqued several chapters each, and Sarah critiqued drafts of all chapters. Dawn Balcazar and Robin Connors took the time to review the book proposal as well as critique later chapters, and Dawn Balcazar reviewed the entire first draft. Ruta Mazelis gave her valuable critique to the first four chapters. Of course, my gratitude to all those mentioned above and below does not imply that they agree with me on all points, or that errors are anyone's fault but my own. |
| Michael Ames, my editor, amazed me during our first conversation because our views on why this type of book should be written coincided exactly. I had never heard such an empathic response from an editor, and I chose Temple University Press largely because of Michael. Throughout this project he was insightful and objective, yet showed his essential trust in my judgment, goals, and work methods, for which I am grateful. |
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