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The elementary schism between clinical and research practice is the issue of rules of evidence. What the clinician accepts as justifiable inference may strike the investigator as indulgent fantasy. Conversely, the investigator may choose to address a problem, the solution of which is regarded by the sophisticated clinician as irrelevant, or worse, obvious. Psychotherapy and the Psychology of Behavior Change contributes little to a rapprochement. Lamenting the fact that research findings have had so little effect upon the practice of psychotherapy, the authors embark upon a reckless course of reductionism. Dispensing with the skilled clinical therapist-observer, the relevance of intrapsychic conflict or concern with the psychotherapeutic process, the authors convene at the council of