title: Grief therapy and research as essential tensions: prescriptions for a progressive partnership.
abstract: Although the articles in this Special Series take an important step toward fostering mutually respectful dialogue between thanatological research and practice, many impediments still stand in the way of the continuation of the conversation.  This closing coda therefore offers several prescriptions for sustaining a constructive exchange between the two domains, in the hope that a more artful and empirically informed grief therapy might yet take shape that embodies the unique strengths of each perspective.
authors.affiliation: University of Memphis, Tennessee, USA. neimeyer@memphis.edu
authors.forename: R A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Neimeyer
mesh_terms: D006117:Grief; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D012106:Research; D013795:Thanatology