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This book has taken many years to complete. During that time, I have relied on many people for sustenance and support. My deepest debt is to those people living in the past who spent time in asylums and wrote about their experiences or shared their stories in some other way with the world. I have learned so much from them. I hope that I have adequately represented their lives and their work. I also owe much to contemporary survivors, users, and other mad activists and authors, who, through their work, have shown the importance of developing a mad praxis that centers the voices and experiences of people living with mental troubles or distress.
I am deeply grateful for the institutional support I have received during my years working on this project. Thank you to the many librarians and archivists who have helped me track down manuscripts, letters, broadsides, pamphlets, and other printed materials. Michael Kicey in the University at Buffalo (UB) libraries was especially helpful in finding digitized documents. Grants from the UB Humanities Institute and Institute for Research and Education on Women and Gender enabled me to hire graduate research assistants during the early stages of this project; and a faculty fellowship from the UB Humanities Institute provided me with the time to write an initial draft of the manuscript. Thank you as well to the wonderful folks at Oxford University Press, especially Nancy Toff, whose close reading of the manuscript improved it greatly.
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