Harriet Brown's teenage daughter was diagnosed with anorexia when she was just 14 years old. Harriet and her husband sought the advice of therapists, psychiatrists, and doctors, and finally landed on a little-known but promising approach - The Maudsley Approach.

"The Maudsley approach advocates separating the disease from the sufferer, the anorexia from the adolescent."

Two studies on this approach produced a 90% recovery rate in the adolescents who participated. The basic idea is that parents get intimately involved in "refeeding" their children. Harriet Brown's daughter now maintains a healthy body weight, and is learning to recognize (and defy) the negative thoughts and emotions that helped trigger her eating disorder. Read more at NYTimes.com.