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Richard Wayne Bandler (born 1950) is an American writer, consultant, and public speaker in the field of self-help. [1] With John Grinder , he founded the neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) approach to psychotherapy in the 1970s, which is considered pseudoscience .
Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) is a pseudoscientific approach to communication, personal development and psychotherapy, that first appeared in Richard Bandler and John Grinder's 1975 book The Structure of Magic I. NLP asserts that there is a connection between neurological processes, language and acquired behavioral patterns, and that these ...
Current statement attributed to Summers, L. (1996) Training & Development. Alexandria, VA: American Society for Training: Jan 1996. Vol. 50, Iss. 1; pg. 30, 2 pgs "There is a general view that NLP is dubious and is not to be taken seriously in a business context (Hardiman 1994; Summers 1996)" Comments by Comaze. This ref needs to be checked.
Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) claims to be a field of human endeavor concerned with empirically studying and modeling human performance and excellence, with the goal of creating transferable skill sets. It specifically claims to be based on the idea that the unconscious mind can be "programmed" like a computer.
Frogs into Princes: Neuro Linguistic Programming (1979) is a book by Richard Bandler and John Grinder, co-founders of neuro-linguistic programming (NLP), which is considered a pseudoscience. [1] [2] [3] The book is one of several produced from transcripts of their seminars from the late 1970s, and has sold more than 270,000 copies. [4]
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As stated previously, the lead doesn't currently have any meaningful description of what NLP is. Reading Sturt et al, there's a reasonable description. I suggest changing the lead
Bandler and grinder seem to have introduced terms and ideas of their own that are not part of the accepted body of linguistics. Nominalization is a grammatical transformation but according to Bandler and Grinder, nominalizations constitute linguistic distortions.