The book arises from thinking a lot, reading a lot, discussing a lot, and from a series of psychological studies undertaken in the last 20 years in collaboration with people who started working with me as graduate students. These people are (in alphabetical order). Alisha Ali, Elise Axelrad, Angela Biason, Valentine Cadieux, Maja Djikic, Allan Eng, Mitra Gholamain, Alison Kerr, Laurette Larocque, Gerald Lazare, Raymond Mar, Maria Medved, Seema Nundy, Janet Sinclair, Patricia Steckley, and Rebecca Wells - Jopling. They have gone on to other things, including being professors, school psychologists, and psychotherapists
