Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #203464 in Books
• Published on: 1978-06
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 261 pages

Customer Reviews

No Nonsense
Very good text on the development of metaphors for use in changework, therapy and hypnosis. Closely allied to the teachings of Bandler and Grinder, Virginia Satir and Milton Erickson. This book has met my expectation.

and now for a review by a non-NLP person
I've read a few books that touched on NLP and I've
been to seminars... so I have done some of the exercises
common to NLP.

I read "unlimited Power" by Tony Robbins and a few other
things, but I really didn't understand the structure of
"submodalities" and how these things work to create change
in people.

This book by David Gordon lays it out in a fairly technical,
dry fashion. I still don't understand NLP very well. It's
still something you would have to be pretty darn interested
in to be motivated to read and understand this stuff.

I bought this book because it was recommended by a copywriter
who is an NLP practitioner as the best single book to read.
Interestingly Gordon never refers to NLP - I think he was around
when Bandler and Grinder were formulating their brand of
therapy and selling it to the army, but Gordon seems primarily
concerned with psychotherapeutic applications rather than
optimum performance coaching for winning at business and war.

EXTREMELY cool book
I've read many NLP books and yet this book covers many interesting areas I've always wondered about in NLP. Simply a great great NLP book. You really get the feeling how good understanding this guy has and how you might learn to do it! Richard Bandler wrote foreword in this book and he obviously recommends it aswell.