[Guideline for the assessment of therapeutic success in the treatment of anorexia].

Several different empirical studies dealing with the field of intrafamily relations, long term prognostic factors and the differentiation of living and deceased allowed us to postulate a guiding criterion for the evaluation of anorexia-treatment: The success of treatment depends on the quality and development of social relations (object relationships). In this case the development of new relationships, that do not belong to the old pathogenous field, are extremely important.