Healing the research-practice split: let's start with me

This article highlights many of the major issues that separate the researcher from the clinician and then suggests some possible solutions. The format involves an enacted two-chair dialogue between my researcher side and my therapist side. The dialogue involves three phases. Phase 1 involves each side presenting a straw man of the other's position. In Phase 2, the two sides engage in a creative dialogue regarding many of the issues that divide them. Phase 3 eventuates in a series of synthetic solutions that honors the concerns and core values of each side. The solutions include: (a) broadening the definition of clinically useful research, (b) researcher-practitioner collaboration, (c) appropriate dissemination of user-friendly research findings, (d) translating research findings into experience-near procedures such as the systematic case studies, and (e) providing clinicians with easy access to a video archive of research therapies.