December 12, 2003

At the Intersection of Psychotherapy Research and Clinical Practice

To the Editor:

David Glenn's "Nightmare Scenarios" (October 24) portrays two opposing nightmares: On one side are the therapy police, who are scientistically micromanaging the clinical practice of psychotherapy, and on the other side are poorly informed clinicians, who are foisting pseudoscientific witchcraft on a gullible public.

In our view, the real nightmare is the unnecessary fragmenting of clinical psychology, and the polarization of research scientists and clinical

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