Author: Andrew T. Austin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0En2hKGCioE&rel=0 In Defense of the Right Man Following various feedback regarding my “Right Man Syndrome – Depressive Thinking Patterns” page, I thought I’d write the patterns from the Right Man’s perspective. For this purpose, we need to invoke the concept of "The Maybe Man". In contrast to the Right Man, the “Maybe Man” is usually..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoVm8mwj8hc&rel=0 Summary: Andy reviews a chapter that began as a page on one of his earliest websites in the 1990s. He discusses why some NLP practitioners and therapists may avoid severe mental illness, touching on the lack of psychiatric infrastructure, the different status attached to medical conditions, and how status can influence what practitioners choose..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vf-z6A1XRXg&rel=0 Summary: Andy reviews the short changing position chapter, which describes a method he used a great deal early on. He explains that the characters we carry in our heads reflect our own internal dialogue, and illustrates shifting a person's relationship to a critical father figure by picturing him smaller and further away.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxgMnx47tfo&rel=0 Summary: Andy reviews the hearing voices chapter, after a note about his YouTube membership section. He distinguishes between saying something to yourself and hearing a voice say it, and describes voices, whether they seem internal or external, as internal dialogue that is interpreted differently by the person hearing them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edl8jg-p2DE&rel=0 Summary: Recorded in the attic after a note about his Ericksonian hypnotherapy membership course, Andy reviews the brain hemispheres chapter. He covers the left brain and right brain metaphor and where submodalities fit, notes that modern brain imaging does not support the popular model, and rants about mirror neurons and claims about brain injury..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5gLyvz_z-k&rel=0 Summary: Andy reviews the core transformation chapter, which recounts an unusual situation from his work in a mental health care setting. After a brief introduction to core transformation, he describes how he reflexively mirrored a resident's behaviour, and comments on the social dynamics and unwritten rules of care environments.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7xVSwAizEo&rel=0 Summary: Andy reviews the learning chapter, which is about how teaching can accidentally give people the wrong lesson. Using the left brain and right brain metaphor, he describes submodalities as the analogical relationship we have with content, and shows how the setting and manner of teaching, including a military example, shape that relationship.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bdFmVOLex8&rel=0 Summary: Andy reviews the hoarding chapter and admits it now makes him uncomfortable, because it suggests obsessive compulsive disorder is easy to fix. He discusses why people keep things they may never use, including unreturned borrowed items and unfinished business, and suggests that avoiding shame may play a part.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82SvS91A7BY&rel=0 Summary: Andy reviews the complex equivalency chapter of Tales from The Rainbow Machine. He explains the NLP idea of treating two things as the same, using a person who likened an interview to an execution, and links it to submodalities and to identity-level problems such as 'I'm a smoker'. He asks viewers to suggest..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWKIFSzCbXU&rel=0 Summary: Andy comments on two chapters that were originally one, The Endless Loops and Obsessions and Compulsions. He uses an example from a television series to illustrate a repeating test-and-operate loop, discusses 'what if' loops, says he thinks the term OCD is often used loosely, and describes his own inner OCD tendencies. He argues..