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Family therapy is defined and described as a modality of treatment in anorexia nervosa. A study of fifty-three cases treated in this way is presented. The authors
feel that it is not possible to treat an anorectic without involving the family as well; they view the symptoms as expressions of intrafamilial pathology rather than as purely individual.