Many therapists today have lost faith in the dream that there exists one single school of therapy that

is better than all the rest. These therapists are no longer searching for the one best best way to do therapy. Instead, they are using their personal education, training and experience to tailor their therapy to the client and the moment in the evolving therapy process.

These are the therapists who are postmodern, deconstructing the very idea of a one-size-fits all school of therapy. They are postmodern whether they know it or not, just as one might be a dreamer, or a connoisseur without knowing it. These therapists -- no I will speak of "we postmodern therapists" -- are making micro-judgments continuously in the course of our work. And it is here in the micro-judgments that we most feel our creative power to help. These micro-judgments could never be scripted for everyone. Yes, of course, we stay within the ethical dictates of our profession. In fact, we often feel we must step outside a particular school in order to honor the ethical guidelines of our profession. The best therapeutic moves are invented outside the box and every postmodern therapist invents in this way throughout the therapy.

Lois Shawver, PhD. http://users.california.com/~rathbone/np5.htm

“In order to become whole we must try, in a long process, to discover our own personal truth, a truth that may cause pain before giving us a new sphere of freedom. If we choose instead to content ourselves with intellectual “wisdom,” we will remain in the sphere of illusion and self-deception.
The damage done to us during our childhood cannot be undone, since we cannot change anything in our past. We can, however, change ourselves. We ca repair ourselves and gain our lost integrity by choosing to look more closely at the knowledge that is stored inside our bodies and bringing this knowledge closer to our awareness…We become free by transforming ourselves from unaware victims of our past into responsible individuals in the present, who are aware of our past and are thus able to live with it.” (1-2)

“How can therapy be of help here? It cannot give us back our lost childhood, nor can it change the past facts. No one can heal by maintaining or fostering illusion. The paradise of preambivalent harmony, for which so many patients hope, is unattainable. But the experience of one’s own truth, and the postambivalent knowledge of it, make it possible to return to one’s own world of feelings at an adult level – without paradise, but with the ability to mourn. And this ability does, indeed, give us back our vitality.” (14)