Coherence

Question 1

In CT what is the cause of the client’s presenting problem or symptom

Answer 1

Non-conscious emotional knowledge requiring it to meet our needs for bonding/connected, agency/free will/choice or safety/certainty. Physically and emotionally.

Question 2

Symptoms are maintained by

Answer 2

Presently existing constructions of reality, - Schema’s held in implicit memory- formed in the past and still held - it is the lens of unconscious personal constructs (emotional story) - projection of the past into the present

Question 3

Goal of CT

Answer 3

Transformation of the minimum amount of underlying material needed for ending symptiom

Question 4

People have native mental processes

Answer 4

For zeroing in on and transforming symptoms

Question 5

What is the assumed timeline for accessibility of unconscious constructs

Answer 5

Is immediately available through experiential, noninterpretive, non counteractive methods that engage and unpack these schemas

Question 6

Change occurs through

Answer 6

Direct experiences of the symptom requiring material not cognitive insights - so people telling without having the emotion doesn’t work

Question 7

Symptom coherence

Answer 7

Emotional knowing (schema) that makes it necessary to have the symptom because it prevents an even greater suffering

Question 8

Presenting symptoms occur because

Answer 8

Compellingly necessary to have and fully makes sense according to a non conscious, non verbal (implicit) but well defined cluster of personal themes, purposes, knowings, meanings, constructs.

Question 9

Implicit synonyms

Answer 9

Understood, implied, unstated, nonverbal - not clearly or directly stated

Question 10

Coherent, unconscious symptom requiring schemas are the

Answer 10

Emotional truth of the symptom requiring material

Answer 11

Emotional truth of the symptom