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architects of the NIMH Community Support Program and created the NIMH Program on Homelessness and Mental Illness. She was appointed the first Deputy Director of CMHS, part of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Since 1994, she has worked part-time as Director of Communications at the Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research and has held a faculty appointment as a professor of psychiatry at the New York University School of Medicine. She has lectured locally, nationally, and internationally, and co-authored Schizophrenia for Dummies (Wiley, 2008) with her psychiatrist-husband, Jerome Levine, M.D. She is a member of the American Society of Journalists and Authors, the Association for Health Care Journalists, the American Medical Writers Association, the Authors Guild, the National Association of Science Writers, and the American Psychological Association. She resides in Chappaqua, New York with her husband and son.

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INTRODUCTION

14 Make new friends Helen Exley, Friendship Quotations (Quotation Books) (Chicago: Helen Exley Giftbooks, 1992).

CHAPTER 1

27 Each friend represents Anais Nin, “The Friendship Page: Friendship Quotes: General,” Global Friendship, http://www.friendship.com.au/quotes/quofri.html (accessed June 2, 2009).

28 complexity, depth, and intimacy Liz Spencer and Ray Pahl, Rethinking Friendship: Hidden Solidarities Today (New York: Princeton University Press, 2006), 76.

30 no official friendship counts Spencer & Pahl, 23.

30 10,000 Brits Microsoft Press Centre, “Time Pressured Brits Make 396 Friends In Their Life . . . But Lose 363 Of Them,” Press Release, November 28, 2003, http://www.microsoft.com/uk/press/content/presscentre/releases/2003/11/pr03170.mspx (accessed June 2, 2009).

31 seven year expiration date “Half of your friends lost in 7 years,” Press Release, May 27, 2009, http://www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.aspx?ItemId=58115&CultureCode=en

31 How many best friends http://www.fracturedfriendships.com/blog/friendship-factoids-facebook (accessed on 9/1/07; no longer extant).

32 five close friends Lewis Smith, “Online networkers who click with 1,000 ‘friends,’” The Times, September 11, 2007, http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article2426229.ece?Submitted=true (accessed June 2, 2009).

32 150 people Lewis Smith, “Online networkers who click with 1,000 ‘friends,’” The Times, September 11, 2007, http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article2426229.ece?Submitted=true (accessed June 2, 2009).

32 fewer friends than their friends have Scott L. Feld, “Why Your Friends Have More Friends than You Do,” The American Journal of Sociology 96 (1991): 1464-1477.

33 face-to-face Liz Spencer and Ray Pahl, Rethinking Friendship: Hidden Solidarities Today (New York: Princeton University Press, 2006), 39.

33 differences are evolutionary Anna Kuchment, “The More Social Sex,” Newsweek, May 10, 2004, http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4879366/site/newsweek (accessed June 2, 2009).

33 “tend and befriend” Shelly E. Taylor, The Tending Instinct: Women, Men, and the Biology of Relationships (New York: Holt Paperbacks, 2003), 15.

33 more in tune with other people’s feelings Terri Apter and Ruthellen Josselson, Best Friends: The Pleasures and Perils of Girls’ and Women’s Friendships, (New York: Three Rivers Press, 1999), 21.

34 Gender Differences in Online Friendships Amanda Lenhart and Mary Madden, Pew Internet and American Life Project Report, Social Networking Websites and Tenes, January 7, 2007, www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/198/report_display.asp (accessed June 4, 2009).

34 Friendships are discovered Herb Galewitz, Friendship: A Book of Quotations (Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 1999), 21.

34 women who are extroverts Meliksah Demir and Lesley A. Weitkamp, Journal of Happiness Studies (2007), 8:181-211, 187.

35 share certain qualities that bond William K. Rawlins, The Compass of Friendship: Narratives, Identities, and Dialogues (New York: Aldine De Gruyter, 1992), 12.

36 Friendship is a non-event Lillian B. Rubin, Just Friends: The Role of Friendships