A common factors revolution: Let's not "cut off our discipline's nose to spite its face"

Technique is but one feature, although a very prominent one, of the psychot herapeutic endeavor. Previous attempts by Bruce Wampold and others to downp lay psychotherapeutic techniques and to endorse a common factors approach h ave met with strong scientific and political resistance. However, given the methodological merits of the H. Ahn and Wampold study (2001) and the stron g programmatic basis for their position, the author does not believe that a methodological debate is warranted. Instead, some of the major economic an d professional forces in opposition to a common factors approach to psychot herapy research, practice, and training are outlined. Implications of a com mon factors revolution, and a proposed alternative, are also explored.