“…Compared with normal controls, bulimic anorexics rated their families as more isolated and non-disclosing, less involved, supportive and organized, with little intellectual emphasis (Humphrey, 1986b); as more negative, less positive and more contradictory in their communications (Humphrey et al, 1986), as more belittling, ignoring and less helping, trusting and nurturing (Humphrey, 1987) and as less cohesive and expressive and more con¯icted (Stern et al, 1989).…”