Acknowledgments
Much of the content for this book stems from inspiration that I had when I was leading a perfectionism group at McLean Hospital's Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Institute (OCDI). As such, I would like to begin by thanking the patients who participated in this group for their thoughts and insights and really pushing me to think clearly about this topic.
Next, I wanted to thank Julie Silver, at Harvard Health Publications, who originally approached me about writing this book. I had been asked for many years to put these ideas and thoughts down in a book, but it wasn't until I spoke with Julie that this became a reality. Florence Isaacs, writer, and Linda Konner, my literary agent, were also pivotal collaborators in the early stages of this book: Florence, in helping me with the original outline and proposal, and Linda, in helping to connect me with Dan Ambrosio at John Wiley & Sons, Inc., the editor for this book. Dan and his team, Christine Moore, Ashley Allison, Lauren Freestone, and Peter Knox, have been extremely helpful throughout the latter part of the process—Christine, in particular, who had to endure my less-than-perfect sentence structure and grammar.
My publicity team, including Rusty Shelton, Amber Gray, and David Luna at Shelton Interactive and Stephanie Chelf and Jackie Herskovitz at Teak Media, has been of tremendous support. I would also like to thank friends of mine, including Paul Gurney, Perrie Merlin, and Michelle Caya, who weighed in on various ...
