For facilitating a successful juxtaposition experience, the client must be guided into feeling open to attending to both of the mutually incompatible knowings, and the therapist’s welcoming attitude toward both is crucial for this. In contrast, any attempt by the therapist to use the contradictory knowledge to show the incorrectness of the pro-symptom knowledge would be unwelcoming and suppressive of the pro-symptom schema. Then neither genuine juxtaposition nor synaptic unlocking nor transformational change would occur, because juxtaposition creates the required mismatch only if both knowings
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