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These original books are not books to be read without proper introduction to the topic of NLP. Read them after some introductionary books, at the moment you want to find out more about the roots of NLP
The goal of the collaboration between Bandler
& Grinder was to find a theoretical base for
describing human interaction. A part of the result can be
found in this first book from the field that would be
called "NLP" (but only a few years later). This
book is your resource to the meta-model. It is entirely
devoted to asking questions based on the form of the
"client's" surface structure.
Want to go beyond this? In turn, you'll find the roots
for this book in the work of Bateson (systems thnking,
together with Witehead and Rusell), of Korzybski (General
semanitics) and of Chomsky (who introduced the idea of
surface structure and deep structure, and the need for
transformations between the two). For the record, the
book has 2 prefaces: by Virginia satir and Gregory
Bateson. This book was dedicated to Virginia Satir.
The third book to the field of NLP brought us the representational systems, the theory of Incongruety (borrowed from Satir), Fuzzy Functions (semanitic Ill-formedness) and a section on Family Theraphy. This book is dedicated to Leslie Cameron and Steve Gilligan, 2 of the persons being "around" Bandler and Grinder at the time.
The second book to the field, and the first book that applied the results of the meta-model. (Milton was one of the models for the meta-model work, but his work ended also up as one of the first results.) Milton wrote the introduction himself.
(there is also a second part: Patterns of the Hypnotic Techniques of Milton H. Erickson, M.D (Volume 2) I haven't read it, but it might interest you .. -> Check out this book at Amazon.com
The book contains 2 parts. The first part contains well known patterns (which you can find in other sources): explanations of language patterns used for questioning (meta-model), Satir categories, representational systems. The second part contains an overall model for family therapy, which is material that was first published in this book. If you are interested in family therapy, I can recommend the book for this part, even if there is a risk you'll consider the material as being pretty obvious (if you have a lot of NLP training, that is). Finally, the book offers an appendix based on material of Lauri Kartunnen that is very helpful for identifying presuppositions when someone is speaking. (Some other satir books have been discussed on this web site: Check out my reviews of "The Satir Model" and "The New peopleMaking".
Mainly based on what we call strategies in NLP, this book teaches about getting to them by elicitation, finding ways to apply them or designing new ones. A final section discusses how to install these strategies. This book is written in the highdays of "programming" and is full of the typical strategy notation that it introduced. How simple NLP was in those days, compared to the models that have been added since, it teaches a lot about modeling.
This book is a collection of 3 smaller publications with a academic background (dating from 1976, 1977 and 1978). It represents NLP as it was in the early days.
I'd say that the title of this book is well
chosen. It is a good "follow up" reading to
find out more on this subject.
Submodalities were developed during the 70's by Richard,
the late Todd Epstein and Chris Hall. Will McDonald set
out to write a book that "specializes" on this
topic, drawing extensively on transcripts from workshops
in which Richard was teaching the concepts and the
applications of sub-modalities. The application described
are largely therapeutical: the Swish Pattern, doing
"change history" with submodalities, Belief
Canges with Submodalities, Chaining, ... In the book
you'll find some 22 exercises directed towards the use of
sub-modalities, 2 tables listing the submodalities
distinctions and submodality descriptions. The appendix
contains an interesting duscussion of submodality use for
treatment of depressions.
Eric Robbie wrote in Achor Point in August 1998 that
"the writing of this book was almost entirely Will
McDonald's work". I'd say "Richard was the
source of inspiration from which it was written". In
the same "Anchor Point" article, Bandler has
been quoted for saying "This book is such a joy to
read. Will's writing flows like silk." I tend to
agree with that statement.
Will got his first NLP training in 1981. He was known for
training competent students. Since he passed away in 1998
(on June 29), this book is one of the few ways left over
to learn from him.
These books are easy to read, even if they are quite
unstructured (they are often criticized for this). Their content
comes from transcripts of seminars, so the structure they have,
is the structure of the seminar. They probably influence the
unconscious more than the conscious mind.
These books can have several uses: an introduction to NLP for
beginners, or as advanced modeling material for advanced NLP-ers
(as seen from historical context).
Another book in need of a review...
Published in 1981, a few years after the other "original" NLP books, this book is an indication how NLP evolved in a full blown therapeutic model. This is a book about hypnosis, as Bandler & Grinder modeled it from Erickson. It is written to look as a 3 day seminar, and invites you to try out things yourself. (The book is edited by Steve Andreas, also known as John Stevens). At the end of the book, you 'll find a well-structured description of the techniques and concepts used for inducing a state of hypnosis (the Milton Model). For an NLP-er, just reading appendix 2 is a way to refresh his or her knowledge of state-induction.
(Review adapted from Joseph Riggio's comments)
This time, Bandler and Grinder put their attention on
using verbal and non-verbal communication to shift
meaning in their client's models of the world with an
emphasis on using language and language patterns.
In this book you'll also find a description of "the
parts-model" and "6-step reframing" (an
application of the parts model). At this moment Richard
Bandler says he doesn't do "parts" anymore, but
John Grinder certainly still does. The parts model has
bred some controversy in the NLP community. Some still
use the "parts" model and some are beginning to
move away from it in favor of more integral and wholistic
methods.
This book does not belong to the "original books" as I originally intended the title, but is certainly is related to the period that brought us those books. It gives you the story as seen by a privileged eye-witness. The author is cited in the acknowledgments of NLP volume 1!
For anyone believing that NLP is "very serious business", reading about the what happened during "the wild years" will at least enlarge the map of the world. If you want to have a representation of the persons and the remarkable events, you'd better add this book to your reading list.
Richard continues to deliver books that are close to the way he talks during his training sessions
This was the first NLP-book I've read (in 1987 or something), without knowing what NLP was all about, and years before going any further in the topic. At that time I was looking for books about positive thinking, but this book really got my attention. The "humorist" examples used throughout the book are typical for Bandler - whether you like them or not is up to you - but they provide good anchoring when you use this book for self-education (don't take it too literal). And, by the way, the topic of the book is in fact sub-modalities.
(French translation: Un Cerveau pour Changer, Paris, Inter Editions, 1990 )
If you ever go to a seminar that Richard gives, it would surprise me if you wouldn't hear at least one variation on the stories used in this book. In the appendices you'll find some NLP models explained in short (accessing cues, meta-model, linguistic presuppositions, submodalities, reframing, ...).
John Grinder and Judy Delozier delivered us a book in the same style:
This book is a reworked transcript from a seminar the authors gave in March 1986 in San Francisco. At that time John and Judith were busy inventing the "New Code". The result is a book about consciousness and unconscious, about double descriptions, disassociation, first and second position and changing perceptual filters. In other words, the reader gets a lot of exercise to enlarge the map of the world. Bateson and Carlos Castaneda are the most cited authors during this seminar. Don't try too much to get a conscious map out of this book. As Judy says now, it should have been "Turtles all the way up".
The Andreasses have also brought us some other books that can be counted as classics in an NLP library:
In this book the Andreasses have made some models out of Richard Bandlers work. As such, this book describes examples of applications. (Dutch translation: Veranderen kan... Leuk zijn: NLP en de kunst van het plezierig ontwikkelen., Servire, 1990) (French translation:)
This book treats 20 kinds of typical problems and the NLP applications that have been developed to deal with them. For each of the problems you get an transcript of a session as an example. Warning: NLP is more than a set of techniques, and the experienced practitioner will only rely on these standard techniques as inspiration, or if he/she doesn't see another way out. Consider this book as a product of NLP: modeling excellence results in new models.
(Dutch translation: Het hart van de Geest: Veranderen door innerlijke kracht, Servire, 1992, ISBN 90-6325-407-5)
(French translation: Au Coeur de l'Esprit, La Temperance, 1994, ISBN 2-9505753-2-5)
Pour la version française, Elisabeth et Bernard Frit ont fait ce qu'ils considairent leur devoir: la traduction et publication soignée d'un des livres de base. Préface par Anne Pierard.
The style of writing a book by assembling the transcripts of some seminars has not stopped with the original books. There are still some books recently published that keep the same structure. The advantage is that persons studying NLP get some "real" examples of how the application of a NLP technique sounds like.
This is yet another book that explains Pene-Trance, State of Excellence, Anchoring, Change History and Reframing (includes 6-step reframing). It is good material for a German following practitioner training. The book uses seminar transcripts of several different seminars, that have been edited. To deal with the disadvantages of the format, the book gives some structured overviews, that are very similar to typical handouts given during NLP training's.
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