1) Symptoms are always compellingly necessary expressions of…

a) just one unconscious position

b) a conscious position

c) one or more unconscious position

2) The emotional truth of the symptom is…

a) what is experienced by the client day-by-day as their symptom

b) the logical but unconscious driver of the client’s behaviors and feelings

c) how the client first tells the therapist about their problem

3) Experiential work is best carried out with…

a) the therapist offering accurate interpretations

b) the client bumping experientially into a felt-sense awareness of their emotional truth

c) the therapist identifying and explaining the client’s pro-symptom position

4) Counteractive approaches can be useful to manage symptoms, but those symptoms tend to reactivate in stressful or triggering situations.

4) The client’s unconscious, implicit knowing and meanings are held…

a) in the limbic system

b) in everyday awareness

c) in the frontal cortex

5) To change a ‘position’…

a) the client must keep it out of awareness

b) the client must have a direct experience of having it

c) the therapist must keep it out of the client’s awareness

6) The aim of the therapist is to…

a) activate a variety of defenses and to elicit projections and associations

b) to get the client to start disliking his/her symptom-requiring schema

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.

True

False

8) The client must become directly and immediately aware of a symptom-requiring position in order for it to be amenable to change.

True

False

9) Left to its own devices, the mind manages to maintain multiple incompatible positions for years or even a lifetime.

True

False

10) When incompatible positions are experientially juxtaposed ,the mind chooses one and in doing so dissolves the other.

True

False