Postmodern cognitive psychotherapy: From the university to the multiversity

Abstract

In this article the author rejoins Lyddon and Weill's position on cognitive psychotherapy and postmodernism by defending the proposition that the contextual conditions of postmodern society challenge cognitive psychotherapy to introduce significant changes in current theory and practice. The author elaborates on three major topics: (1) individuality and inferiority as the two sacred cows of modernist cognitive psychotherapy; (2) the central assumptions of a postmodernist conception of cognitive therapy; and (3) and some challenging implications to the conception of clinical practice.