title: Amanda's gift.
abstract: Even though we know that anorexia nervosa carries the highest mortality rate of all mental disorders, it is easy to distance ourselves from this fact. Cold hard statistics did not help me to understand what I was likely to experience as a therapist with a dying patient. Putting a face to these statistics, brings the grim reality closer to home for all of us.
authors.affiliation: joanne.gusella@dal.ca
authors.forename: Joanne
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Gusella