Neuro-Linguistic Programming (or NLP) is a form of psychotherapy that aims to get results quickly. It is designed to modify behavior, and has been used to treat a number of psychological problems in adults and children. The treatment has only been around for around thirty years, but has had an amount of success on a range of psychological problems.
Neuro-Linguistic Programming is also now popular as a personal performance boost. The self help fraternity and life coaches have been, for many years, been adding NLP into their ranges. Popular uses of Neuro-Linguistic Programming include changing people’s attitudes to make them more aggressive when it comes to business, or more confident in interpersonal relationships. Neuro-Linguistic Programming has become a tool that allows people to get over personal hang-ups that they may have had for a very long time, even from childhood. It is helpful in aiding people get over mental scars they may have picked up in the past.
The fathers of Neuro-Linguistic Programming are John Grinder and Richard Bandler, who created the main form of NLP in the 1970s. Bandler was a student of the University of California, where Grinder was a well-known professor. They began to work together to examine some interesting language patterns that they found in earlier research by Fritz Perls.
It was in 1975 when the pair published their first book on the subject, ‘A Book about Language and Therapy’. They continued to add to this with a number of volumes which strengthened the research they had initially done.
Traditionally, therapy takes months, or even years before the patient sees the benefit. Neuro-Linguistic Programming took the world by storm because of its incredible speed at helping people get over barriers they had had for their whole lives. There are many reports of people who had shortcomings they had struggled with for their entire lives finding that they could break through them in a couple of short sessions of Neuro-Linguistic Programming.
Another benefit to NLP was that the individual himself could learn the techniques, and perform them without the use of a therapist. This is more powerful than first meets the eye, as when the patient begins to take control of their own treatment, the speed and efficacy of said treatment can be extraordinary.
NLP will continue to be an important part of psychotherapy, and looks to continue in its use and scope.
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Claire Jarrett runs Marketing By Web and is blogging on behalf of CBP training, who offer NLP Courses
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