From a news report on Science Daily:
“Evidence-based trauma-focused psychotherapies require that patients experience and then master anxiety,” Dr. Guina and colleagues write. “Benzodiazepines can impair that experience by numbing emotions, decreasing learning efficiency, and inhibiting memory processing of material learned in therapy.”
Can we use this instead of that:
“Evidence-based trauma-focused psychotherapies require that patients experience and then master anxiety,” Dr. Guina and colleagues write. “Benzodiazepines can impair this experience by numbing emotions, decreasing learning efficiency, and inhibiting memory processing of material learned in therapy.”
Answer
I find no problem in using whatsoever –this or that especially in the very next sentence, and when there’s only one experience have been just defined.
There are very less chances that we think of ‘some other’ experience if we read ‘this’ instead of ‘that’ or vice versa.
However, looking at the original source, I’m curious to know who spoke this sentence: “Benzodiazepines can impair that experience by numbing emotions, decreasing learning efficiency, and inhibiting memory processing of material learned in therapy.”
Attribution
Source : Link , Question Author : CowperKettle , Answer Author : Maulik V