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What Is NLP And How Does It Work?

by donnabee

NLP was created for the first time in the year 1970. John Grinder
and Richard Bandler were its creators. They had claimed that NLP
had theories, principles, practices, methods and techniques of
three varied fields, namely, linguistics, computer science and
neurology.

NLP has often been defined as a 'modeling excellence'. Some also
define it as the art and science of useful and productive
communication. Others call it 'the study of the structure of
subjective experience.'

NLP however has never enjoyed much support from the faculty of
psychology. Skeptical psychologists have long ago written NLP off
as a pseudo-scientific approach to psychotherapy. A recent survey
shows that professionals dealing with mental wellness rate NLP as
a psychotherapeutic method of disputable merit and authenticity.

Neuro-Linguistic Psychotherapy is an application that has
emerged as an offshoot of NLP. UKCP or United Kingdom Council for
Psychotherapy recognizes this application.

History of NLP

Richard Bandler, a student of Santa Cruz University, California,
had been appointed by psychiatrist Robert Spitzer to teach drums
to Spitzer's son. Soon he was engaged in a different project for
Spitzer and transcribed the recorded therapeutic sessions of
therapist Fritz Perls. During this process, it appeared to
Bandler that he could identify certain sentence and word
structures that helped in the acceptance of the positive advices
and suggestions offered by Perls. With this revelation, Bandler
went to the linguist and teacher John Grinder. Then the
Bandler-Grinder duo created a model named the 'Meta Model'. They
claimed this to be a model of (a) powerful and persuasive word
structures and (b) the way in which those work. They then modeled
the sessions of the therapist Virginia Satir.

Bandler and Grinder published a book named 'The Structure of
Magic' in the year 1975. This book contained a detailed
description of their work and also declared that it was actually
possible to break down and encode the therapeutic procedures of
therapists Fritz Perls and Virginia Satir. They told that even if
a therapy appeared magical and extraordinary, it always followed
a definite identifiable structure, which could be learned by
anybody.

Soon they got introduced to Milton Erickson, a psychiatrist from
America. Erickson was a founding member of the American Society
for Clinical Hypnosis. He had one of the most unconventional and
controversial approaches to psychological therapy. He could make
the favorite phrases, the past, the convictions, the ideals, the
family and cultural background and even the neurotic habits of a
patient, his tools for helping the patient change. He treated the
unconscious mind as a productive, contributive, creative and
positive medium (in much the same way Derren Brown uses the
unconscious of his subjects to make it appear that he is
controlling their minds). Soon Bandler and Grinder had Erickson
as the third model for NLP.

The founder-duo claimed that NLP was a faculty of communication
in addition to a therapeutic technique and soon began its
marketing as a business instrument.

NLP Today

The present day finds NLP as a profitable industry. Numerous
forms of the concept are applied in books, workshops, audio
programs and seminars as theories and exercises aimed at
influencing emotional and behavioral transformations. Derren
Brown uses NLP as part of his act, videos are available online
that show Derren using NLP to influence the behaviour of his
subjects. These are amazing to watch, and really show how people
can be easily suggestible.

Donna Mathews
http://www.watchderrenbrown.com

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