ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We are grateful to many people for helping us during the writing of this
book. First and foremost, we thank our families for their support. We
also extend a very special thanks to Nancy Doherty for her outstanding
editorial work and unending encouragement. She is truly an
exceptional person!
We’re grateful to our agent, Stephanie Kip-Rostan, for her help and
for introducing us to Sara Carder, our editor at Tarcher, who “got” the
book when it was just an outline. Sara’s insight and vision have been
invaluable. We thank the entire Tarcher team for the great work they’ve
done. In addition, we would like to give special thanks Eddie Sarfaty,
Jezra Kaye, Jill Marsal, Giles Anderson, and Smriti Rao. Thanks to
Ellen Landau and Lena Verdeli for their valuable comments on parts of
the manuscript. Many thanks to Tziporah Kassachkoff, Donald
Chesnut, Robert Risko, David Sherman, Jesse Short, Guy Kettelhack,
Alexander Levin, Arielle Eckstut, Christopher Gustafson, Oren Tatcher,
Dave Shamir, Amnon Yekutieli, Christopher Bergland, Don Summa,
Blanche Mackey, Leila Livingston, Michal Malachi Cohen, Adi Segal,
and Margaret and Michael Korda.
We want to acknowledge the volunteers who shared their intimate
experiences and personal thoughts with us. We also thank those who
took our Applied Adult Attachment questionnaires and gave us
feedback on the beta version. Each and every person taught us
something useful.
Writing this book would have been impossible without the rich
legacy of innovative attachment research upon which we drew. We’re
forever indebted to the researchers who made groundbreaking
discoveries in this field. They introduced us to a different—and
ingenious—way of viewing relationships.

From Rachel
I thank the entire team at the Modiin Educational Psychology