Brain, Mind and Language – Mind, Neurology and Mental Health with Andrew T. Austin

Andrew T. Austin is a therapist with a background in Accident and Emergency, Neurosurgery, and Clinical Neurology as a registered nurse. This is his main website with well over 100 amazing articles on psychiatry, mental health, NLP, neurology, and hypnotherapy, which no one ever reads anymore because they are all on Facebook looking at cat pictures and arguing with complete strangers.

With a private practice in West Sussex, England, Andrew has a specialist interest in “schizophrenias” and anxiety and has been heavily influenced by the writings of notables such as R.D. Laing and Thomas Szasz. He has developed two bodies of work, “Integral Eye Movement Therapy (IEMT)” and “Metaphors of Movement (MoM).” IEMT is a rapidly growing therapeutic modality that has some analogies to EMDR, whilst Metaphors of Movement is a model for exploring the hidden mind which has many therapeutic applications. Both have become recognised modalities and are listed in the Sage Encyclopedia of Theory of Counseling and Psychotherapy.

Andrew T. Austin is more than willing to speak out about the narcissism that is rife within the therapeutic professions and, as such, draws a lot of negative commentaries, especially from the “NLP community” described by Austin as “rotten to its very core.”

“The Rainbow Machine – Tales From a Neurolinguist’s Journal by Andrew T. Austin” is published by Real People Press and prefaced by Steve Andreas.

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“This is the most interesting book about therapy I’ve read since Jay Haley’s Uncommon Therapy.” Steve Andreas, author of Six Blind Elephants, and co-author of Heart of the Mind.

“Whatever your level or level of interest in NLP this book’s a must – as it is for anyone who enjoys Robert Anton Wilson…” Amazon.co.uk review.

“Andy Austins Rainbow Machine will have you laughing, gasping in horror and awe, and wishing like hell that you lived close enough to him to get an appointment. He is the British Milton Erickson.” Bill O Hanlon, author of Change 101 and many other books about brief therapy.

“The author tells stories as provocative as Richard Bandler’s (NLP co-founder and legend), with the warmth, wisdom, and wit of Mark Twain.” Amazon.com review.

Andrew T. Austin started his esoteric training in a Qabalistic lodge (Lodge Zayin, Southampton) in order to learn Ceremonial Magick and Qabalah. Today, he is a Freemason, Oddfellow, an initiate of the Ordo Templi Orientis, a Discordian Pope, and has been a member of a variety of other esoteric organisations. As of August 2020, he has been promoted to Lord of the Principality of Sealand and clearly has too much free time on his hands.

You can find out more about this on his youtube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/c/AndrewAustinmetaphors/videos

“The problem with so much therapy is that it is not just banal and ineffective, but it is often condescending and patronising nonsense. Therapists have a habit of repackaging everyday common sense and dressing it up with the illusion of great profundity and wisdom. Despite ignorance, they frequently position themselves as avant-garde heroes of ancient, rediscovered, and sacred truths.”

Andrew T. Austin

“Psychiatrists look for twisted molecules and defective genes as the causes of schizophrenia, because schizophrenia is the name of a disease. If Christianity or Communism were called diseases, would they then look for the chemical and genetic “causes” of these “conditions”?”

Thomas Stephen Szasz, The Second Sin

Presented here on this site is a guide for NLP people and allied practitioners working in psychiatry who wish to know more about schizophrenia, neurology, and an NLP way of working with it. Any queries, comments, contributions, and pledges of cash are greatly welcomed and can be forwarded to freshnewbrain@gmail.com