1) Engaging empathically with the suffering the client experiences from the anti-symptom position is the first step in commencing Coherence Therapy.

True

False

2) Symptom Deprivation prompts the client into bumping experientially into what is most relieving, comforting or welcome in not having the symptom.

True

False

3) Sentence Completion requires the client to repeat the initial stem of a sentence, then to fill in the ending with whatever first comes to mind, speaking out loud in a series of repetitions.

TRUE

FALSE

4) The Overt Statement can be said back to the therapist, to imagined others, or spoken to the whole world in general

TRUE

FALSE

5) Engaging with ‘anti-symptom’ empathy means....

a) finding ever-clearer reasons not to like or approve of the client’s symptoms.

b) being warmly appreciative of the client’s aggression, envy and resistance.

c) demonstrating a close understanding of the client’s suffering as a result of the symptom, and his or her desire to be rid of it.

6) In the Discovery phase the therapist seeks to...

a) detail the dysfunction and cost of the symptom to the client .

b) come to understand the unconscious function of the symptom through the client’s direct experiencing.

c) speculate about the client’s implicit emotional meanings, and interpret those to guide the client into following stages.

7) The emotional truth of the symptom is...

a) always at the surface of the client’s awareness.

b) a combination of attributed implicit meaning, along with the emotion felt

c) something that is stubbornly held on to as true, even if others don’t see it so.

8) Frequently, the therapist might commence Discovery work by...

a) asking the client to describe a concrete example of a specific occurrence.

b) asking the client to describe the general way that he or she suffers.

c) asking the client to describe the family’s history of psychopathology and disease.

9) An Overt statement...

a) is a statement from the anti-symptom position.

b) is only used in the Discovery phase.

c) is optimally a succinct “I statement” of that which feels true to the client.

10) In the Discovery phase the therapist should aim to work as...

a) a journalist, noting each item in linked sequences to understand the larger story.

b) an anthropologist, starting from a position of “not knowing”, learning as much as possible from the client and constantly seeking more specificity about the client’s experience, avoiding fixes, and making as few interpretations as possible.

c) a dentist, removing the rotten teeth and repairing the damaged ones to maximize the client’s presentation and re-integration into their social environment.