This practical manual describes a novel, highly effective strategy for the treatment of atopic skin disease in adults and children. The proven method combines the effective use of conventional topical treatment with the elimination of self-damaging behaviour using habit reversal techniques.<BR>Every sufferer recognises the vicious circle of partial skin healing followed by relapse which characterises the delibitating and demoralising experience of chronic atopic eczema. Until now patients have had to learn to live with their eczema, but the combined treatment approach described here enables them to take control and, for the first time, to live without eczema.<BR>The book opens with a clear illustrate introduction to atopic skin disease and conventional therapies, and goes on to outline methods for behaviour modification. The remaining chapters and the Appendices provide everything the practitioner needs in order to apply these techniques in adults and children.