This is a single author book, but nidotherapy is not the enterprise of a single person. Apart from the patients, whose contributions are seen clearly in many of the following pages, I owe a great deal to many who have allowed me to test out new approaches when an easier option would have been to say ‘no’, to others who have had the courage to go along with me as fellow nidotherapists and developed the approach in ways that were novel, perceptive and sensitive to patients’ needs, to colleagues who may have looked askance at me at times for my personal eccentricities yet still offered gentle encouragement and support, and to the members of community teams who have to operate by consensus but still had shoulders broad enough to accommodate me without rejection. I must thank specifically Phil Harrison-Read, whose conversations over the years merged consensual management into nidotherapy, Peter Carter for defending my excesses, Helen Seivewright for showing that whatever determination and persistence I have is far exceeded by hers, Katarina Miloseška for reaching top speed faster than anyone I know from a standing start, Kofi Kramo for his cautious responses to my impulsive enthusiasm, Anna Maratos for showing that music therapy is the royal road to nidotherapy, Tom Sensky for showing that the measurement of treatment fidelity is far from a doddle, Maja Ranger for controlling her curiosity and ensuring all her research assessments were properly masked, Priya Bajaj for diligence beyond the call of any kind of duty, Catherine Gardiner, Ann-Marie Tully and Srjan Saso for the enthusiasm of youth and the promotion of drama, Derek Smith and Fergus O'Brien for putting us on film, Deirdre Dolan and Nancy Ababio for taking up the mantle assiduously without quite knowing what it was, Barbara Barrett for making me feel cost-effective, Sandra O'Sullivan for ensuring that every nidotherapy conference we mount lives up to its name, and Sarah-Jane Spencer for evaluating us with that mixture of engagement and independence that is the proper stuff of qualitative analysis.