Author | John Grinder; Richard Bandler |
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Language | English |
Subject | Communication |
Publisher | Real People Press |
Publication date | 1979 |
Publication place | United States |
Pages | 194 |
ISBN | 0-911226-19-2 |
Frogs into Princes: Neuro Linguistic Programming (1979) is a book by Richard Bandler and John Grinder, co-founders of neuro-linguistic programming (NLP), which is considered a pseudoscience.[1][2][3] The book is one of several produced from transcripts of their seminars from the late 1970s, and has sold more than 270,000 copies.[4] The book offers examples of Bandler and Grinder employing various NLP techniques, representational systems, rapport-building, anchoring, and reframing.
As NLP became more popular, some research was conducted and reviews of such research have concluded that there is no scientific basis for its theories about representational systems and eye movements.
All of this leaves me with an overwhelming impression that the analyzed base of scientific articles is treated just as theater decoration, being the background for the pseudoscientific farce which NLP appears to be. Using "scientific" attributes, which is so characteristic of pseudoscience, is manifested also in other aspects of NLP activities... My analysis leads undeniably to the statement that NLP represents pseudoscientific rubbish