In this episode, Harriet and Jenny talk about the famous Maudsley ‘Animal Metaphors’, which help carers to think about how interpersonal relationships can impact the recovery process. As Jenny writes in the manual, “The New Maudsley Model uses animal metaphors as a light-hearted yet powerful way of illustrating how carers’ initial and instinctive reaction to the eating disorder are not always helpful and can lead carers to inadvertently accommodate to the illness’