15465. THERAPY IS LIKE A GOOD NIGHT'S SLEEP: A POSTMODERNIST VISION. This term paper presents an evolving theory/metaphor of therapy which states that therapy is like a good night's sleep. The essay explores the etiology of this metaphor and traces its roots to postmodernist psychology, explaining how the metaphor is in many ways clinically and/or intellectually satisfying, and yet in other ways also clinically and/or intellectually unsatisfying. The discussion and analysis is undertaken within the following framework: 1) an overview of postmodernism in psychology; 2) a synthesis of the metaphor within the postmodernist paradigm; and 3) a deconstruction of the metaphor, examining its fit with a) therapist/client relations and therapist's role, b) therapeutic goals/objectives, and c) therapeutic practices. KEYWORDS: postmodernism psychology psychotherapy benefits essay. APA Style. 15 pages, 39 footnotes, 18 bibliographic sources.