NLP and Psychological Research: Rapport, Reframing and Eye Accessing Cues
Journal Title: Journal of Experiential Psychotherapy - Year 2017, Vol 20, Issue 3
Abstract
Introduction: Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) is a highly controversial topic with reviews ranging from uncritical appraisal to rejection. Scientific psychology mostly rejects it. But are some NLP concepts that much distant from psychological concepts? Objectives: The objective of this article is to review whether additional empirical evidence for NLP can be found elsewhere than literature explicitly studying NLP, which still is rather rare. Methods: The method is a scan of rather recent psychotherapeutical and neuroscientific literature that do not explicitly study or even mention NLP, using three NLP formats as examples: rapport, reframing and eye accessing cues. Results: This review shows that: a) psychotherapeutical research on rapport supports NLP concepts of pacing and leading, b) a new concept in trauma therapy, redirect, has close links with reframing, and c) the highly controversial NLP format, eye accessing cues, shares analogues with modern neuroscience. Conclusions: This study adds empirical evidence to NLP by linking studies otherwise not considered in the context of NLP to NLP. In addition, it shows that there are more links between NLP and parts of state-of-the-art psychology than one might be tempted or forced to think.
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Claudia Wilimzig, Karl Nielsen
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