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In counselling and psychotherapy there is a serious research-practice gap. Why should research on the therapeutic process have such little impact? Five related factors are considered: (i) epistemology-reliance on experientiaL'persona1 knowledge; (ii) preciousness-reliance on nonaxiomatic truths; fiii) lack of theoretical rigour-looseness with which constructs are construed; (iv) non-Popperian logic-tendency to work within a theory and defend it; and (v) personalisation of theoty--evaluation seen as criticism. The result is a proliferation of therapies rather than a rejinement of therapy.