Soul Murder

[erudito]

Here’s a bit of a paradox. I think Freudianism is largely bunk. That is, the anal, oedipal, oral etc theorising is false and distracting; the id, ego, superego structure either wrong or simplistic. But I have found material written by Freudians (such as the blogger Shrinkwrapped’s comments on therapeutic matters-as distinct from his other

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[catsidhe]

I get my NLP from The Structure of Magic I and II, and Frogs to Princes. The idea there is to use the Structured aspects of a patient's responses to try and determine what the actual problem is, and to use the Programming part to i) train the patient in self-programming, and ii) train the patient that it is possible and desirable to change.

The problems began when people started to realise, fairly early on, how powerful the techniques are for other, less salubrious purposes. That's when the seminars started. That's when the profiteering started. That's when Bander and Grindler split and started their on-again-off-again war. It is precisely because the techniques are so powerful and generally applicable that the political, managerial and advertising fields have taken it up with such destructive gusto.

NLP is a tool. It is a powerful and useful tool. Unfortunately, any useful and sufficiently powerful tool can and probably will be used for evil.

One side-affect of my father having used NLP techniques on me during my childhood and adolescence is that I more-or-less speak NLP as a native language. Even if I haven't had the practice in its application, I know when it's being used on me, and I know how to mitigate or obviate its effects. Unfortunately, it has also taught me that pure talking cures, even ones as strong as NLP, have no effect on chronic seratonin deficiency and other organic problems. A talking cure is of no use against organic Depression or Schitzophrenia, and anyone who tells you otherwise is dangerously deluded. They can provide insights into one's self which can alieviate anxiety and provide some basis for self-discipline and self-gnosis, however.