pThis important new book details a strategic and systemic model for short-term therapy with adolescent su64256erers of anorexia nervosa, a psychopathology that seduces patients into starvation as doctors and family look on with increasing desperation. Supported by the successful treatment of hundreds of cases over the past 30 years, the book is the culmination of a long-term intervention programme developed at the Strategic Therapy Centre of Arezzo, Italy.ppIt begins by outlining the range of di64256erent eating disorders, before identifying the speci64257c characteristics that adolescents with anorexia present. The variations of the pathology are then discussed. Not all patients present with the same symptoms some su64256erers over-exercise while others binge eat or self-harm. Substance abuse is also common, either with diuretics or chemicals others self-induce ivomitingi. The therapeutic strategy will, of course, di64256er for each patient. Accessibly written throughout, the book con