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Here are some links to articles I discovered while searching for something completely unrelated. I think they're well written and contain some intelligent observations, and I encourage you to read them.

If We Treated Any Other Illness This Way, It Would Be Malpractice (Laura Collins Lyster-Mensh)

Three Simple Steps to Eliminate Heartburn and

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Yes. The Maudsley Method has standing, but one can only enjoy success via MM if certain criteria are met:

1) Possess enough time to devote to championing recovery for their child (as opposed to parents who both work full-time and have latch-key children);

2) Be mentally stable enough to provide physical AND emotional care, support, and guidance (as well as the requisite commitment to helping their child recover); and

3) Have a reasonably healthy relationship with the child that has NOT in any significant way contributed to the eating disorder (or, at least, must be capable of substantially reforming said relationship). Really, the family has to be stable and the child needs to be able to trust the parent(s). In most families, that trust is not enough and the family members have too many of their own problems to effect change in the child.

MM requires time, dedication, and emotional strength and stamina. I don't think most adults are capable of doing what it takes to employ the Maudsley Method successfully. So the MM is only useful to a very limited pool of people.