4. Next, the
therapist explores early attachment and separation experiences that underlie
her need for "in utero" symbiosis.
You answered TRUE.
Incorrect. Though the Coherence Therapy process might focus on early experiences,
the therapist does not assume the work necessarily must focus there. Rather, the therapist
understands that current symptoms are generated
only by currently existing emotional schemas, and seeks
to elicit these into awareness. The underlying, symptom-requiring material
certainly was formed in earlier experiences, but is carried and lived
in the present. Retrieving the symptom-requiring schema into awareness can be done in a variety of ways, including but not limited to a focus on early experiences..