Yet each of these patients seek assistance from the same professional. Therapists learn to enter into, and operate within, the assumptions each of these realities in attempting to be helpful. To some extent, therapists' professional livelihood depends on their ability to serially switch channels from one patient's reality to another as a typical work-day unfolds. To be of many minds means to make room within oneself for diverse ways of thinking in an effort to relate to each. It means to regard truth as plural and relative, rather than singular and absolute.
Postmodernism is made for contemporary times.
By radically relativizing the concept of truth, it argues for the presence of multiple culturally-determined realities, all of equal validity. This price we pay for such an outlook can easily become intolerable. Postmodernism creates a world-view which is ultimately untenable and unlivable. From a psychological perspective, when lived-out consistently, it fragments the individual's sense of personal identity and promotes a sense of isolation. For the reasons covered above, therapists today are increasingly concluding that effective helping is culture-bound.