I have found this a most thought-provoking and interesting exercise, and I am grateful to the therapists and impressed by their moving work. Success with anorexic patients in family therapy has been reported on a number of occasions and I have been interested to hear the work of Chris Dare and his associates in researching the parameters of these changes.

In some ways, I regret that the session that caused the change in Jane's behaviour was omitted - so that I was unable to look in greater detail at what went on. The inference was that since ‘the therapist worried about asking questions of them (the parents), the answers to which each would have preferred the other not to hear’, Jane