we thank Ann Shinefeld and Ellin Spector. Preparation of the man-
uscript was supported by a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation (Grant No. 23335). From the foundation, we thank our
project officer, Margery Gutman. The final editing of the manuscript
took place while we were both on interagency personnel assignments
(IPAs) at the Connecticut/Massachusetts VA Mental Illness Research,
Education and Clinical Center (MIRECC). From the MIRECC, we
thank Robert Rosenheck for helping us to include the most recent
findings in family burden research with veteran populations.

We benefited greatly from interactions with colleagues at the Uni-
versity of Massachusetts. In the mid-1980s, the first author worked
with Gayle Gubman and Lewis Killian to develop a theory of stages
in family response to mental illness, and in the late 1980s with Gene
Fisher to develop measures of family burden and to launch the re-
search presented in Part II. Throughout the many years of our re-
search on family burden, the Social & Demographic Research
Institute (SADRI) under the leadership of Peter H. Rossi and Douglas
Anderson has been the most supportive of environments. From
SADRI, we thank Dee Weber, who managed our databases, and
Karen Mason, who proofread the entire manuscript and constructed
the index.

We want to extend a personal thank-you to the many family mem-
bers in Ohio who participated in our surveys, and who shared their
attitudes and experiences with us. We are proud to be your spokes-
persons. Finally, we want to publicly thank our own family members,
our spouses--Hugh Gamache and Patricia Gorman; our children--
Gail Fisher, Melissa Gamache, Timothy Gamache, Carol Gamache-
Taylor, Catherine Regish, Hannah Tessler, and Zoe Tessler; and our
grandchildren--Christopher Fisher, Heather Taylor, Anthony Ga-
mache, Lindsay Regish, Benjamin Gamache, Michael Regish, Con-
stance Bosinger, and Lauren Gamache.

Before his death in 1996, James Greenley agreed to review the
manuscript and write a foreword to it. Had he lived to accomplish
that task, he surely would have had much to say that would have led
to improvements in the final manuscript. For the parts of the book
that remain imperfect without his counsel, we accept full responsi-
bility. May the parts that are insightful and compassionate honor his
memory.

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