Mortimer.Chudley@f626.n250.z1.fidonet.org (Mortimer Chudley) (01/12/90)
Index Number: 6210
[This is from the Chronic Pain Conference on Fidonet]
I would like to tell you that NLP is overrated, just as every quick
cure discovery is overrated. I took a weekend with a *certified* NLP
practitioner and I have spoken with a couple of other and worked with
one as a co-worker. It is mostly just stage hypnosis in terms of its
techniques. A lot of it seems to be raising momentary effects to the
status of cure. On the weekend I went to the practitioner taught a
participant a couple of communication skills and announced that her
lifelong patterns had been changed and that she was a different person
and that all this proved that NLP was a miracle of sorts. Bullshit,
I have seen equally good interventions in intro psychology and even
English classes. Even the name Neurolinguistic Programming is not
what is really going on. I read Bandler and Grinder and found a few
good idea well put and rehashed in readable language. But their book
on hypnosis is garbage, where they do tiny things that most people
could do and then Label the event as cosmic. This kind of thing gives
psychotherapy a very bad name.
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