No one client, relationship, story or interpretation dominates the therapeutic discourse, as the therapists and clients learn to listen, reflect and provide feedback about the stories in a fluid meaning-making process (McNamee, 1996).
The emphasis on the relational processes and the clients' generation of new meanings is also significant for psychotherapists who encounter patients with severe mental disorders such as schizophrenia. Currently, the tendency of mental health professionals to rely on the rigid diagnostic categories listed in the DSM-IV to label their patients and devise the treatment is highly limiting and damaging to their clients (Linares, 2001). With the postmodern approach, the concepts of the norms and standards of acceptable behavior will be set aside to allow for a complex relational perspective of the clients' problem. This type of therapeutic approach demonstrates tremendous openness and respect to the clients who are enabled to interpret their experiences of their diseases from their perspectives. This activ
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