Of all the different kinds of psychotherapy available family therapy is perhaps the one most commonly suggested as being beneficial to the anorexic? Probably because the majority of sufferers that yield to anorexia are children, most of them being young girls between the ages of 15 and 18.
Family therapy works by involving not only the young person who is anorexic but also the family as the name suggests, it is thought that many anorexics blame there problems on everything else but themselves.
Often too the family suffer but in a different way they blame themselves for failing there child, asking themselves “where did we go wrong?” It is just as important for them too to realize they are not the ones at fault.
