Posted by 64bowtie on May 30, 2012, at 7:47:05
Neuro-Linguistic Programming, AKA Neuro-Linguistic Psychotherapy, is getting a bad rap among professionals who project the practice is Pseudo-Science, Phenomenology, and a non-starter... Hmmmmmmmm... I've spent the last 15 years being mentored by an adherent of NLP...
Let's say we take a hundred front pages to as many daily newspapers (1, each), scanning and collecting the speech patterns contained in each front page story, in order to create an encyclopedia of (average) "normal" speech patterns, that can be compared to those of a new client's while they are under duress...
I just learned of this purposeful modality in articles I was reading over the weekend... Since I was never directly involved with NLP, you might ask what differences it might make... Also, I'm not a licensed practicing Psychotherapist anyway, so what's up???
That's the analysis process... Where the therapy comes into play, is to encourage at all times, correcting client speech to approach the normal accepted speech patterns... By inference, NLP hypothesizes that after sufficient time and repetition, a new order of comfort sets in...
This may point to wellness in the externally conflicted client, but lacks a theme when studying internally conflicted clients; some say 90% of all disturbed and distorted clients are mildly to severely "INTERNALLY CONFLICTED"... You must firstly get the attention of this client... Then secondly help to overcome the conflictedness... Now you can help them overcome the nature of their disturbed and distorted lives... The process may take the client an enormous amount of time to find relief from the voices in their heads; to hear only 1 voice, and to recognize it as their own...
By reading the condemnations and concerns of the other erstwhile professionals, a troubling pattern began to emerge... David Peck, my mentor and friend of 29 years, till his death, pioneered naive practices that served him well in his practice but didn't translate so well to the mainstream...
This presents itself as a crossroads to me... I have my hard fought PhD in Education; not likely to be used in any classroom; more likely to be used as authorship authentication (proof that I'm a writer)... So, not much of my MO has to change...
To list my motives, everything stays pretty much in place... I have solved a mystery for myself, and now I'm free to pursue my own practice... I will never have to abandon my mentor, David Peck and his models meant to foster wellness... I am sad that so many of his unique therapy approaches leaned so heavily on his connections to Bandler and Grinder, and their early days of NLP...
And, after-all, as I said before, I am not trying to become a SHRINK!!!
Rod
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