Neuro-linguistic programming

Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) is a quasi-spiritual behavior-modification (or "performance psychology") technique whose crux is "modelling," or "NLP modelling" (Raso 2005). NLP practitioners most commonly define NLP as "the study of the structure of subjective experience". How do we do what we do? How do we think? How do we learn? And how do we connect with each other and our world on a physical and spiritual level? (O'Connor & McDermott, 1996) (Dilts et al 1980)(Milliner 1988). Thus, "NLP is about form and not about content" (Dilts et al 1980).

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Originally developed for psychotherapy as theraputic magic (Bandler and Grinder 1975a), NLP uses sense based tenets such as preferred representational systems ((PRS) i.e. visual, auditory or kinesthetic modes of thinking), types of behavioral mirroring and pacing (body language), and transforming beliefs and traumas through methods of reframing (Andreas & Faulkner, 1994). NLP has expanded to include applications to a variety of contexts including business, sports performance, and the development of psychic abilities, and covert seduction techniques.

Related Topics:
Psychotherapy - Trauma - Business - Sports - Psychic - Seduction

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NLP was originally created by Richard Bandler and John Grinder PhD and has been further developed by a number of people since the 1970s, and is claimed to borrow from a great many sources and inspirations. NLP is also promoted by linguist John Grinder as an "operational epistemology" or a meta-discipline(Grinder & Bostic, 2001).

Related Topics:
Richard Bandler - John Grinder - Epistemology - Meta

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Reviews of the empirical testing of NLP have concluded that NLP is scientifically unsupported, and as such, NLP is classed as a pseudoscientific self help development in the same mould as that of Dianetics and EST (Lilienfeld 2003)(Williams 2000).

Related Topics:
Pseudoscientific - Dianetics - EST

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