Ask a potential therapist about their background and whether they have certification in NLP. See if they can give you more insight into their approach to psychology and therapy as a whole. We understand therapy can feel like a big commitment and that it can feel scary or shameful.
We have our pricing here , and you can meet some of our therapists here. Neuro-linguistic programming has made waves in the psychological community since its conception in the s. Its techniques are simple yet powerful, and proponents of it claim its effectiveness in treating a range of mental illnesses. It is also popular in self-help circles.
There is, however, very little empirical evidence, and none which can conclusively prove that NLP works. Those suffering from serious mental illnesses might be more confident trying a more established alternative before giving NLP a chance. Your email address will not be published. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Table of Contents. Related Posts.
About The Author. Angel Rivera Jr. I am a Bilingual Spanish Psychiatrist with a mixture of strong clinical skills including Emergency Psychiatry, Consultation Liaison, Forensic Psychiatry, Telepsychiatry and Geriatric Psychiatry training in treatment of the elderly. I have training in EMR records thus very comfortable in working with computers. I served the difficult to treat patients in challenging environments in outpatient and inpatient settings.
How we do this is determined by our conditioning. Our culture, our values, our beliefs and what we consciously or unconsciously deem to be important to us. This map is therefore inherently limited, skewed and distorted. Let me give you an example. There are two people, person A, and person B. Person A runs up to person B and hits them.
Notice what you did internally as you read that sentence. You created pictures, maybe even sounds. You created a movie inside your head to process the words you just read on the page. This instantaneous process is actually quite a complex neurological feat. It is also based on your experience. If you assess your own process you would recognise that you have a library of references you drew on to create that IR. You made split-second assessments as to whether what you created in your mind sufficiently represented what I said.
Then you might have also have had a reaction to the violence of the act. Notice how you are now recalibrating that movie to accommodate new possibilities. Notice that without information you unconsciously projected the intention, the gravity, and the context.
You decided the age, gender and race of the two individuals. You decided where it happened, and approximate time of day at the very least day or night whether it was inside or outside. You needed to do all of this because we process in full imagery and you need all of those details to make the movie realistic. You did not create the scene on a green screen so you could add in details later! And recognise that you did it instantaneously. AND, you what you put together could be completely wrong.
You can only run what you deem to be the most likely scenario. If you believe certain races, ages or genders to be more violent, you were more likely to include them as the aggressor.
If you believe that certain people are more often the victims of violence, you might have automatically used that archetype. This interpretive style has been learnt and affects every understanding of the world that we have. What is the point I am making?
We so often think we are seeing the world for what it is and we are actually constantly overlaying our own learnt biases over the top of it. We actually respond more consistently to our own internal world our imagination than to the world around us as it is. The movies or stories that we write in our minds help us make meaning of things, and how we live our lives is predicated on these arbitrary interpretations we make, often without sufficient information.
We mind read and project constantly. Every time you feel anxious about something you are projecting into the future expecting a negative outcome. You can only worry about something that you think will happen, or at the very least, the consequences of what has happened.
All anxiety is based on the future and is by definition a fabrication. It is a response to your own imagination. The movie you run. It cannot be accurate because it is not actually happening, but you can still feel the terror as if it is. The heart rate and blood pressure elevate. Breathe shortens and you become more alert. The article suggests not. Last month a woman was murdered by her husband here in Israel, she was a mother of 4 and was using NLP to train women how to attract a suitable husband.
Listening to her talk on the many videos she uploaded on to social media , it is clear to me that her main motivation was self promotion and making money she needed since her husband was employed as a security guard and she had an ill child to care for. Whether the poor woman had actually believed in the system or not, listening to her talk, I get the sense her main motivation was money making whereas when a person goes for therapy , the main motivation of the therapist ought to be , IMHO, to help a person get better.
Furthermore the use of medical terms in NLP is extremely misleading and is therefore very clearly according to the criteria of a fraud. Educo is NLP based and considered a cult and has been called as such in many newspapers. You must be logged in to post a comment. Why should you be wary about NLP? Posted on February 17th, by Dr Rob Yeung. Facebook Twitter LinkedIn. KP says:.
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NLP uses perceptual, behavioral, and communication techniques to make it easier for people to change their thoughts and actions. NLP relies on language processing but should not be confused with natural language processing, which shares the same acronym. NLP was developed by Richard Bandler and John Grinder, who believed it was possible to identify the patterns of thoughts and behaviors of successful individuals and to teach them to others.
Its popularity was partly due to its versatility in addressing the many diverse issues that people face. The varying interpretations of NLP make it hard to define. NLP is not hypnotherapy.
For example, a central feature of NLP is the idea that a person is biased towards one sensory system, known as the preferred representational system or PRS. Therapists can detect this preference through language.
The framework could involve rapport-building, information-gathering, and goal-setting with them. NLP is a broad field of practice. As such, NLP practitioners use many different techniques that include the following:. NLP is used as a method of personal development through promoting skills, such as self-reflection, confidence, and communication. Practitioners have applied NLP commercially to achieve work-orientated goals, such as improved productivity or job progression.
More widely, it has been applied as a therapy for psychological disorders, including phobias, depression , generalized anxiety disorders or GAD, and post-traumatic stress disorder or PTSD. NLP has not been subject to the same standard of scientific rigor as more established therapies, such as cognitive behavioral therapy or CBT.
NLP providers will have a financial interest in the success of NLP, so their evidence is difficult to use.
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