Neurolinguistic Psychotherapy: A Postmodern Perspective

by Lisa Wake

Neurolinguistic Psychotherapy offers a unique and exciting postmodern perspective on an advancing model of therapy. It places neurolinguistic psychotherapy in context and considers the history of NLP and its relationship to psychotherapy. Presented as an effective model for facilitating neurological change through the therapeutic relationship, this book challenges therapists to incorporate a psychodynamic approach within their work.

In addition the book also

A model of the developing personality and the relationship to attachment theory and emerging theories of neuroscience. A discussion of the linguistic components of NLP and the effectiveness of utilising the language patterns offered by NLP. A challenge to neurolinguistic psychotherapists – asking them to consider the benefits of including relational approaches to therapy above that offered by a programmatic model of change. This book will be of great interest to all psychotherapeutic practitioners and trainers, students and academics.

206 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2008

Reviews

[Gebo]

Excellent book about Neurolinguistic Psychotherapy. This book discusses the ways that neurolinguistics is used as a psychotherapeutic technique. The author goes into incredible detail about NLP as a field, what its theories are, what theories/techniques they're based on, etc. The one complaint I have is that her entire "postmodern" argument is that NLP is constructivist in nature and doesn't really talk about any other facet of postmodernism, e.g. the way that subjectification a la Foucault is an explanatory mechanism for the creation of cultural/subculturally based metaprograms.

If you're interested in NLP in any kind of academic or scientific way, you *must* read this book.