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A case of eating disorder treatment is reported that can be used to illustrate that it is worth insisting on working with the whole family, i. e. not only with the patient with an eating disorder herself, but with her parents at the same time. In this case, the whole therapy consisted of five sessions and the central topic was the struggle whether or not the father would get involved. Successful treatment was finished shortly after the father had been persuaded to cooperate. The text was written little by little as a therapist’s notes from the individual sessions with minimal stylistic revisions and with several explanatory notes. The names as well as some other identifying characteristics have been changed in order to protect the identity of the family who gave consent for publication more than five years ago upon termination of treatment. Our paper proceeds from the concept of separation as social birth in which rapprochement with the father is one of the conditions for further progression of the separation process, as we reported elsewhere (1). This particular case illustrates that, in order for the process to advance, not many therapeutic sessions are required. Bulimic (or anor

Author

MUDr.Vladislav Chvála, PhDr.Ludmila Trapková

Published

2014