Category: NLP | Neurolinguistic Programming

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fg6VnMLk_go&rel=0 Summary: Recorded in the attic with roofing noise outside, Andy reviews what he thinks is the longest chapter, on hysterical paralysis. Drawing on his experience in hospital and psychiatric settings, he discusses people who fabricate illness or backgrounds, such as invented military careers, and notes that they seldom receive the care they actually need.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8p7HiBClZP0&rel=0 Summary: Andy reviews the seeing red chapter, in which a young offender visits his office and Andy deliberately provokes him. He says he finds the chapter somewhat embarrassing, confirms the incident happened broadly as written, and discusses the young person's likely experience of meetings with teachers, social workers and police.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmZt8yk1WM8&rel=0 Summary: Andy reviews the eluding resistance chapter, beginning with a reference-page description of resistance in psychoanalysis. He then discusses primary and secondary gains, the idea that a long-term problem can bring someone benefits, and suggests that exploring how a problem has helped a person can be a useful way into resistance.

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.