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22nd December 1966.
Dear Dr. Parfitt,
I was glad to see your letter in the B.M.J. 24th December. There seems to be no limit to the territory bagged by Dr. Sargant and those who seem to have a need to deny the existence of dynamic psychology.1 I shall probably not write myself simply because one gets tired of taking up these points one by one.
It is of course true that anorexia cases can be very serious and that in the course of giving psychotherapy or of arranging for management, which is another form of psychotherapy, one needs from time to time the help of a colleague who will simply save the