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To the Editor: In their article on behavioral management for anorexia nervosa (Jan. 29 issue),¹ Attia and Walsh state that the Maudsley Method (in which parents take control of refeeding of their child) is the preferred treatment for children and adolescents, but I wonder why they do not recommend it for the 23-year-old woman described in the vignette. For decades, the conventional wisdom was that a "toxic" parent–child relationship caused this disorder. Parents were told to "back off" and were barred from the treatment team.² This cruel and inaccurate bias has lingered in psychiatry. Attia and Walsh note that weight . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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