Hilde Bruch

The author shares her experience of the essential purpose of intensive psychotherapy as it has been shaped over her many years as a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and teacher. She sets forth a theoretical frame in straightforward and unmystical language without minimizing the complexities of demand that therapy makes on both patient and therapist.

Examines the nature of eating disorders, their causes, warning signs, and effects, and how to deal with them.

The story of conflicting personalities and of a girl who would not look at the truth and a man who told it - too plainly! For one as sensitive as Karen, a person of Mrs. Ferndale's crushing personality was hard to bear; but to suggest that Karen's own husband had preferred to spend his leave with her, his mother, was too much ... and yet Karen learnt that it was true. Curiously enough, it was Simon who told her the plain unvarnished truth, and in the end she saw his wisdom and her own folly.