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Wednesday 11 September 2013

What is NLP?

What Is NLP? NLP stands for Neuro-Linguistic Programming. It is a pseudo-science fake branch of psychology dreamt up by Richard Bandler and John Grinder in California, USA in the 1970s. Bandler also made up other systems named Design Human Engineering (DHE) and Neuro Hypnotic Repatterning (NHR).

Pseudoscience separates itself from ordinary science based mainly on the element of falsifiability. Claims of a scientific nature must be tested in a way that makes it possible to be proven wrong, and NLP avoids that by being the practice of ‘doing what works’ – which makes it unfalsifiable. If a practitioner has an ineffective interaction with a client, it can be disregarded as "just not right for them".

All attempts to produce reliable results for NLP’s core tenets using scientific means have produced negative results. NLP’s advocates will often use the argument “It works” to dismiss any criticism, but when pushed all they can provide to support this assertion is anecdotal evidence. Practitioners “know” that it works because they have seen in work with their clients. There are numerous reasons why any psychotherapy method may seem to work. There is generic benefit from just sitting and talking with another person. The introduction of a novel method into therapy creates the expectation that something should happen. Both the counsellor and the client want the sessions to be successful, so there is a motivation to perceive success. So any counselling method will have both non-specific benefits and a large false perception of benefit – even if the technique itself is worthless and the underlying principles absurd.


Sunday 23 June 2013

NLP Communication Techniques Debunked


If you have ever had the misfortune to be in a situation where communication with an NLPer is necessary you will have found that it is an impossible process. The NLPer believes that they know everything and that communication is a one-way process. They talk a lot but never listen. Whereas a normal person participates in a conversation NLP teaches that they should control a conversation and it only exists to serve their needs not the others persons. This is the way a sociopath thinks.

Here is a section from an NLP training manual explaining a couple of techniques they use. (typos, spelling and grammatical errors from the original).







Silence Imposition Technique

If you want someone to stop talking, short of asking them to be quiet, there are at least two effective nlp methods of winding down their continuos urge to speak.

You can remain perfectly silent, or you can disagree. Either of these will usually prompt the other to seek companionship elsewhere.

1. The No-Feedback NLP Technique

Saturday 15 June 2013

NLP Rapport Debunked


rapport

noun [S or U] /ræˈpɔːr/ /-ˈpɔːr/

Definition
› a good understanding of someone and an ability to communicate well with them:











In all aspects of NLP training they constantly bang on about the importance of establishing good rapport. This can be in any context, NLP quack therapy, getting on in their career, getting into someone's pants or any other situation in life.

It is just common sense, of course it is important to have rapport. That isn’t the problem here, with NLP the problem is the methods they teach to achieve rapport and the motivation for doing so.

NLP teaches that someone will have better rapport with someone else who is similar to them. While this is true it then goes on to teach that they should pretend to be like the person they are attempting to build rapport with. This is simple mimicry and of course just makes the NLPer seem false and often creepy.

Sunday 9 June 2013

NLP Eye Clues Debunked

NLP eye clues are at the heart of NLP’s attempts to pass itself off as science. In fact there have been many scientific studies into this area all of which have failed to produce any evidence to support NLP’s claims.

It sounds vaguely plausible at first as it is based on some basic body language that was already well established. When asked a question that you cannot immediately remember the answer to you will tend to look up, that is where your brain is and you are searching for the answer. When you are in an uncomfortable situation and are feeling shy or timid you will tend to look down. 

NLP’s founders took that basic knowledge and expanded it into nonsense by adding in personality types (auditory, visual and Kinaesthetic/Feeling). Again based part on fact to make it sound plausible but expanded to be simply fiction. Yes these types exist but eye movements have nothing to do with it.


The NLP Eye Clue Fiction in their words:

Saturday 8 June 2013

NLP Techniques - NLP’s Embedded Commands Debunked

Many of the techniques taught as NLP are simply a guide to being obnoxious and antisocial. The use of NLP Embedded Commands is one such technique. Trying to manipulate someone to do something via trickery rather than directly asking them is a nasty thing to do.








The following is from an NLP instruction book. (Typo’s left in).