Answers to “Intro to Coherence Therapy Part 2” Comprehension Check:
1) “Symptoms are always compellingly necessary expressions of…”
b) one or more unconscious position
2) “The emotional truth of the symptom is…”
b) a logical but unconscious driver of the client’s behaviors and feelings
3) “Experiential work is best carried out with…”
b) the client arriving at a felt-sense awareness of their emotional truth
4) “The client’s unconscious, implicit knowing and meanings are held…”
a) in the limbic system
5) “To change a ‘position’…”
b) the client must have a direct experience of having it
6) “The aim of the therapist is to…”
c) guide the client into having mismatching, disconfirmatory experiences of viewing reality through the lens of two incompatible perspectives simultaneously
7) “All clients who present with the same symptom have the same underlying implicit beliefs.”
FALSE.
EXPLANATION: One of the wonderful and exciting things about practicing Coherence Therapy is that the therapist never knows, at the outset, what the emotional truth of this client’s symptom will turn out to be. A dozen clients could each turn out to have his or her own emotional truth necessitating the same symptom (i.e. depression, overeating, anxiety).
8) “The client must become directly and immediately aware of their symptom-requiring position in order for it to be amenable to change.”
TRUE.
9) “Left to its own devices, the mind manages to maintain multiple incompatible positions at any one time.”
TRUE.
EXPLANATION: The mind manages to hold multiple, incompatible experiences of reality for years by never allowing them to be held in conscious awareness simultaneously. As long as they are not held in the same field of awareness at the same time, the mind is never forced to choose one and shed the other.
10) “When incompatible positions are experientially juxtaposed the mind chooses the one that resonates deep down as more true and in doing so dissolves the other.”
TRUE.