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Willy Butollo is a research professor at several universities across the Rhin river. He recounts his career in the interview. Trained in experimental psychology, he has developed a project to apply Gestalt principles to work with traumatized people. Therapy is designed to help develop and restore contact abilities. This Gestalt work in war zone populations will produce a large study in the form of a randomized clinical trial. He believes that by conducting research, we become much more specific about what we do and aim for in therapy as well as the changes we observe. Furthermore, he feels that therapists’ beliefs must not be based on the importance of maintaining their image over their results, even if one has to start with modest projects.