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Although the importance of an experiential component in differing approaches to psychotherapy haS been acknowl.edged, confusion over the concepts of "experience " and "emotion " has reSulted in a focus on emotion rather than experience. The fundamental change event in psychotherapy is a kind of experiential an zl. intellectual, experiential knowledge is stored in sensorimoto:: schemaS and includes visual images, auditory images, kinesthetic sensationS, and bodily and visceral events. Behavior in everyday life situationS iS largely a matter of experiential knowledge. Experiential reorganizations can occur at the experiential/perceptual level and when they do, one "knows how " to do something. This- kind of learning takes place in therapy. A conceptual understanding alone is not likely to guide behavior; conceptual understanding must make