[The role of family therapy in the treatment of extremely severe anorexia nervosa].
The authors present the case of a fifteen-year-old anorectic girl. Her lowest body weight was after admission 16.5 kg, with a height of 139 cm-s (body mass index: 8.54 kg/m2). After five-year long unsuccessful individual therapy family therapy was administered, which caused remission, ascertained by a five-year follow-up. The authors stress that in the treatment of a subgroup of anorectic patients the family therapy could be a crucial therapeutical modality.
Túry
Ferenc
F
Wildmann
Márta
M
D000293:Adolescent; D000856:Anorexia Nervosa / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D005196:Family Therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D016896:Treatment Outcome