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Choice and understanding: how to perceive the world multidimensionally
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But isn’t this a mistake, a form of tunnel vision, and a distortion of the diverse reality of the world?

Objectivity is formed by summing many subjective opinions. Can objectivity only be reflected in one specific opinion, while all other opinions are completely erroneous? The answer to this question also lies in the words about ambiguity. Both situations can occur.

What can serve as the basis for making the most effective decision in psychotherapy through:

- The desire for a more detailed study and analysis of each individual situation without relying solely on experience and established patterns of cause and effect.

- Selecting a unique set of therapeutic approaches for each client case, which means training in several schools of thought to provide a range of options.

- Choosing particularly suitable methods and techniques for therapy that not only address the request but also align with the client’s mood in each session, which can change within the hour?

These are the principles of postmodernism that help break free from tunnel thinking and allow for a more multifaceted perception of the limitless reality.

1. Radical Plurality.

To analyze and make decisions, individuals can turn to different practices. There are no restrictions. Even opposing concepts are considered under this principle. Thus, dialogue is possible between religion and science, science and art, as well as between different approaches within the same field—in this case, psychology.

2. Rejection of Binary Opposition Conflict.

This principle helps perceive binary concepts as complementing each other, enhancing each other’s value. They are viewed not as mutually exclusive but as extensions of one another, positioned on the same non-temporal continuum. Order and chaos, consciousness and the unconscious can flow into one another, just like concepts from psychology and philosophy, for instance.

3. Principled (Cognitive) Relativism.

No decision can be deemed the only correct and final one. Such certainty is erroneous.

At the same time, it is necessary to allocate time to make the most effective decision within that timeframe to avoid getting bogged down in the endless search for the ideal.

4. End of Time” or Neo-Archaics.

The postmodern global situation can be viewed as a return to the beginning of human history and culture but at a qualitatively different level.

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