Generally, not following any one system but
selecting and using whatever is considered best in all systems. In clinical
psychology and psychiatry an eclectic therapist is one who will use whatever
therapeutic procedures seem most applicable to the case. This may mean taking a
psychoanalytic bent with one client but a more direct, behaviorial approach with
another. In general, eclecticism is regarded as healthy, especially in fields
like psychology, which are at too immature a level to expect that any one of its
theories or procedures could be universally applicable.