Clinician-Researcher Collaborations: Making The Dream Come True. Perspectives From Argentina On Mcwilliams

The article comments on Nancy McWillams's paper on a plea for collaboration between clinicians and researchers. It highlights the contributions of an expert psychotherapist in raising awareness of the obstacles that hinder the interaction of clinicians and researchers for mutual benefit. It presents an overview of clinicians' and researchers' roles in Argentina, the efforts to overcome the researcher-clinician divide, and the proposal of the Aigle Project to bridge the gap. A brief outline of Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration (SEPI)'s mission to contribute in this direction is presented. The commentary finalizes with a brief summary of the ways to promote two-way communication.