Resolving the Therapy Culture Wars by the Pragmatic Case Study Method

Abstract

Is there a therapy research paradigm that is suited to the models of clinicians who do not use a CBT approach? This article says yes, and describes that alternative: the collection into an organised database of systematic, ‘pragmatic case studies’ conducted by individual therapists. A review of this paradigm reveals that it can also serve the needs of CBT clinicians and researchers who, it turns out, are actually closet case‐study advocates.