What are the pros and cons of using Postmodern Approaches with people from diverse populations

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The postmodern approach to psychotherapy emphasizes the lack of a single "right" way to treat clients. Postmodernism suggests that clinicians use unique combinations of theories and methodologies for each client based on their specific needs. This is an incredibly useful way to work with diverse populations. Although Freudian psychoanalysis and Jungian analytical psychology have components that could be helpful to any client, both theories ignore and sometimes dehumanize women, BIPOC, and queer identities. If a clinician combines the parts of psychoanalytics that can be helpful to a marginalized client (shadow work, personas, etc.) with social justice informed, feminist, and/or family systems theory, they can avoid enacting harm and centralized/celebrate diversity throughout treatment. Postmodernism can be critiqued because it has been used as an excuse for some to pull away from psychological evidence ("truths") and blur ethical lines. When a clinicians centralize the effort to do no harm and sustain ethical practice, this can be avoided.