By Steve Andreas NLP can help you do the ‘briefest’ therapy Published in: Psychotherapy Networker, November/December, 2007, pp. 63-67 Recently I watched a public demonstration at a large psychotherapy conference conducted by a celebrated therapist with a female clinician in her forties. The therapist connected quickly with full attention, warmth, humor, understanding, and many other […]
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by Steve Andreas ©2002 This is chapter 11 of Steve’s book: Transforming Your Self: becoming who you want to be. An earlier version was published in Anchor Point, Vov. 16, No. 7, July, pp. 4-13 When people speak of a “negative self-concept,” what they usually mean is that someone has a self-concept that is negatively-valued.
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by Steve Andreas ©2002 Excerpt from the book, Transforming Your Self: becoming who you want to be We have been exploring the impact and the interaction of both process and content variables in making a quality of your self-concept durable and responsive to feedback. We have also explored the importance of integrating counterexamples, and
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by Steve Andreas ©2002 There are basically three ways that cultures maintain and enforce their group values. One is overt coercion, the threat or use of physical force, incarceration, punishment, or death to limit those who might transgress the values of a group of people. Knowledge of the rules, and the resulting punishment, keep people
by Steve Andreas ©1998 Introduction In their recent Anchor Point article (September 1998, pp 33-37), Michael Hall and Debra Lederer present a procedure which they call “The Kinesthetic Swish Pattern.” I am sure that the pattern they present is useful to clients, since it includes the following elements or patterns: 1. “At least” four spatial
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by Steve and Connirae Andreas ©2002 “I had just learned your grief process in 1990 when my father had a heart attack. I was with him in the hospital for three days until he died. He was already brain dead when I arrived at the hospital, and the process of his death…I’ll simply describe as
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