ience being valued. The anorexic begins to feel accepted and can be responsive to themselves and others without guilt (Whitaker 67).
             The first type of therapy is individual therapy. It is a one-on-one relationship between the patient and the therapist. Individual therapy takes a deeper look at the causes of the behavior. The therapist explores the patients' thoughts, feelings, and looking how they express thoughts and feelings in their actions or relationships (Marx 159-160).
             The second type of therapy is psychotherapy. Psychotherapy is to help the patient in her search for autonomy and self-directed identity by evoking an awareness of impulses, feelings and needs (Bruch 143). The first stage of psychotherapy is establishing an initial way of being together and the therapist is creating an atmosphere that will allow for disclosure without the risk of rejection. The first stage lasts from 1 to 6 months. The middle stage, treatment alliances has been achieved and the patient is able to both regress and take new stances toward oneself. The middle stage lasts 2 to 4 years. The final stage lasts approximately 6 months to a year (Whitaker 92).
             Family therapy is treatment of more than one member of a family based on the idea hinting at problems with the way the whole family operates. The anorexic will get better if the family system can change (Marx 198). Family therapy is most useful with the young high-school age anorexic who lives at home (Whitaker 74). Treating the entire family is advisable if the patients appear to be strong enough to adopt a nurturing –authoritative posture toward the anorexic in therapy sessions (Levenkron 171). The goals of family therapy are the first task is to help the patient break her abnormal eating pattern. Family can support the patient better if they know the facts, and educate the family. The exact goal of therapy depends on the patients' age. When the patient is ...