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In interviews about my book, Brave Girl Eating: A Family’s Struggle with Anorexia, I’m often asked how my daughter feels about the process we went through together, using family-based treatment (FBT). Most interviewers react incredulously when I tell them she’s a big supporter of FBT, that in fact I’ve heard her tell other parents, “You need to do this for your child.”She certainly wouldn’t have said that while we were in the midst of Phase 1, weight restoration. If you’d asked her then what she thought of what we were doing, you might have heard her father and me described as jailors, prison wardens, cruel, and harsh