does it really help for phobias?
2007-07-02 08:58:02 · 2 answers · asked by mizzmamma 5 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) is a method, set of techniques, or personal development system first developed in the early 1970s by Richard Bandler and linguist John Grinder in association with Gregory Bateson.
NLP uses a toolbox of strategies, axioms and beliefs about human communication, perception and subjective experience. The core principle is that an individual's thoughts, gestures and words interact to create their perception of the world. By changing their outlook, using a variety of techniques, a person can improve their attitudes and actions.
NLP teaches that a person can develop successful habits by amplifying helpful behaviors and diminishing negative ones. Positive change can come when one carefully reproduces the behaviors and beliefs of successful people (called 'modeling'). It also states that all human beings have all the resources necessary for success within themselves.
Bandler and Grinder credited three successful therapists — Fritz Perls, Virginia Satir and Milton Erickson — as NLP's major inspirations. They 'modeled' the therapists and developed special "patterns" for general communication, rapport-building and self-improvement.
Evidence-based psychologists assert that NLP is not an empirically validated therapy.[1] It has also been criticized for lacking a defining and regulating body to impose standards and a professional ethical code.[2] Even so, NLP remains popular as an approach to self-help, personal influence and business communication. [3][4] It is also used as an adjunct by therapists in other therapeutic disciplines.
2007-07-02 09:24:54 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I took the training some time ago. The work they taught us was only to learn to figure out the key to another person's statements! The eyes give away the section of the brain that the thought is coming from. E.g., Remember sounds, pictures come from one section; Imagined things from another; etc. I remember about 6 different positions the eyes take. To the left: up, to the side, and to downward. Then to the right: up, to the side and downward to that side. But I've never heard anything about treatment use--other than to give the therapist indications of where that memory was coming from: imagined, remembered or heard. The internet surely will help.
2007-07-02 16:25:49 · answer #2 · answered by Martell 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
no idea, if it does, let me know
2007-07-02 16:32:45 · answer #3 · answered by lazybird2006 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋