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If you want really to master NLP, get your hand on these books! Some are very hard to get, or are out of print, but finding them is defenitely worth it. See also the section on Systems thinking on the Advanced Reading page.
In fact, Steps is a collection of papers that Bateson published previously, put together in a commen structure. This book is often referred to by NLP-ers. Anybody serious about writing an NLP book seems to mention it in his referencs. I wonder how much persons have really read it from cover to cover. I must admit I haven't. I own the french edition, which comes into 2 parts
Even if this book appeared after the NLP field was already up and running for some years, it is a book to consider. At the time, Bandler & Grinder lived on the same estate as Gregory Bateson, so his thinking has deeply influenced them. The second chapter of this book is entitled "Every Schoolboy Knows". This chapter contains a series of presuppositions that is much better than any NLP list of presuppositions I have seen!
One of the books of one of the most influential thinkers for the NLP-community as a whole. This book was finished by Greogory's daughter, after he died.
His two best known books are and . Especially . However, I didn't have the chance yet to obtain my own copy: as far as I know, it is sold out, and nobody is talking about reprinting it.
The book was first published in 1921, just after the first World War. The Second Edition was published shortly after Korzybski's death. It adds some other materials, but the original text remained the same. In here, you'll find the explanation of Korzybski's time-binding theory and the first source for the term "Human Engineering". The book lies the foundation for Science and Sanity, his better known book.
First published in 1933, Korzybski overviews 2 revisions to this book himself. The 4th and 5th edition appear after his death and basically only add some new prefaces and a revised index. Together with Steps to an Ecology of mind, this book is probably the book most refered to in the NLP communiy.
A non-NLP book written to illustrate the difference about the real world and our view on it, and our communication. Read it if you don't understand "The Map is not the Territory", or if you want some other examples.
Carlos Castaneda, an anthropologist, has been an inspiration for modeling. His books were mentioned to me by Judith Delosier in September 1994 as an inspiration for NLP. Robert Dilts also mentions Carlos Castaneda in some of his tapes.
This book is the first one in a series of 7, without counting the sequel that appeared in 1993 and the procedural book that appeared shortly before his death in 1998. The favorite citation used by Judy comes at the end of chapter 3 in this book: "A man of Knowledge has 4 natural enemies: fear, clarity, power and old age. One can hope to defeat the first 3 ones, the last one can be only fought away."
Tapeset: The Teachings of Don Juan : A Yaqui Way of Knowledge
by Carlos Castaneda, Peter Coyote (Narrator), Don Juan
The original work, published around 1915 in French, is the result of putting together course notes of some of de Sausures students (by Charles Bally and Albert Sechehaye). de Sausure gave these classes on General Linguistics between 1906 and 1911. These lectures and the resulting book form the foundation of the modern field of linguistics.
If you are interested in therapy and hypnosis, I strongly recommend the following books.
The book appeared after Perl's death, and gives a short and readable overview of the principles (including the presuppositions) and the application of Perl's appoach to theraphy. The theoretic part was edited by Robert S.Spitzer.
The second part "Theraphy in Action" are transcripts of group sessions. This second part was the result of Richard Bandler's work (well, no big deal, I guess anyone could have done that) and it is the most direct proof of the third Model, apart from Virginia Satir and Milton Erickson, that NLP was inspired by. The transcript session is not really special: it looks a lot like the transcripts we know from NLP books using that style, and can be seen as a source to modeling Perl's for any NLPer wanting to do so.
(Dutch Translation: "Gestaltbenadering, Gestalt in Actie: Illustratieve teksten bij sessies", Uitgeverij De Toorts, 1996, ISBN: 90-6020-184-1)
Viginia Satir lived from 1916 till 1988, so some mathematics will learn you this book also appeared some time after the Death of its "author" (just as the previous book). Maria Gomori, one of the people working out this book, is a NLP Master Practitioner, and it shows when you read this book. Unlike "The New Peoplemaking", this book is very readable and explains in a structured way how Satir's therapeutic interventions actually work. Compared to "Changing with Families", this book is a bit less specific on the use of NLP models, but this is compensated by a lot of information on the therapeutic processes. "The Satir Model" will tell you what to do, NLP will teach you how to do it.
Both NLP and Satir consider content and context as being secundary, but Satir is about process while NLP is about structure. This corresponds to the more recent critiques that "early NLP" isn't "Systemic", which is indeed an element that only has been added to NLP recently. Also Satir's Therapeutic beliefs show a lot of correspondence to the operating presuppositions of NLP, which probably isn't a coïncidence, since Virgina Satir was one of NLP's early models.
Models you'll find in "The Satir Model" include "Working toward Congruence", "The Process of Change", "The transformation Process", "The Parts Party", "Family Reconstruction" and Sculpting, methaphors and Mandala.
This book is a transcript of some sessions Erickson organized at his home in Phoenix in 1979, less than 8 months before his death (4 years after he was modeled by Bandler & Grinder). A good source if you want to know more about one of NLP's big models, without having to look at him trough the NLP-map of the world...
I'm personally not specialized in hypnotherapy. I've bought myself some books just in case I find some time to do some further study that domain. So forgive me if I don't really recommend those books...
The main concept of this book is about self-worth and personal congruence. The original book "Peoplemaking, first published in 1972 (a few years before Bandler & Grindler modeled her), sold over 700,000 copies and was translated in 12 languages by 1988. Shortly before her death, Virginia updated the book based on remarks from hundreds of people. She also added 6 new chapters, taking into account the changing times (discussing adolecence, old age and changing family systems) and adding the new dimension she discovered in her later years (past 1980): world peace and spirituality. In fact, congruence until then focussed on 2 levels: the Feelings and the Self. This book is less accessible than "The Satir Model" or than "Changing with Families". I'd recommend you keep it as background reading once you have worked yourself your way through these two other books.
Parts One to Three of the current book are mostly the same as the orginal book (as it appeared in 1964). Part 4 has been added for the Third Edition. It contains information about the Satir training programme (better explained in The Satir Model) and Satir's own answers to question that were often asked about the way she conducts therapy sessions. Personally I didn't like the book. Its not very "readabe": understanding it is a kind of modeling process. So first buy the other books I reveiwed concerniong Satir. Only then consider buying this one...
This volume contains the proceedings of the conference in Phoenix in 1980, when over 2000 professions from all over the world gathered for an International Conference in the honor of Milton H. Erickson. This book can help you to understand how Ericksons approaches worked.
Gilligan was one of the persons sent by batson to study Erickson. He never really "came back". This book is definitely "not NLP", even if Steve was around in Santa Cruz when NLP was started. Good material if you want to study the domain of hypnosis further.
A reprint of papers that Jay Hayley published over the years, having Milton Erickson as topic. So if you collected the other sources, you probably have most of this stuff. It's up to you to decide wether to buy this book or not.
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