Fortunately, I turned on the car radio at just the right time. Harriet Brown was on, talking about her new book, Brave Girl Eating: A Family's Struggle with Anorexia and the family-based approach she and her family used to help her daughter. I was so taken by her talk that I drove to a bookstore the next day and purchased two copies of the book and read onein just a couple of days.
I cannot state this more strongly: if you live with an anorexic, or know an anorexic, or know someone who knows someone who struggles with anorexia or disordered eating, please, please, please get and read this book.
Brave Girl Eating is a memoir of Brown's family's experience, but it also incorporates research on anorexia, and the history of its treatment. And it discusses a rather new treatment -- the Maudsley approach. This is the method that Brown used to help her daughter.
The Maudsley approach, a "family-based therapy, in which parents of adolescents with anorexia nervosa are enlisted to interrupt their children's disordered behaviors, is twice as effective as individual psychotherapy at producing full remission of the disease," (http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-10/sumc-ftf093010.php)
Need I say more?
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