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imagnocean in brain_ninja

CBT vs NLP?

Apr 17, 2006 23:42

Ok, so I'm still learning stuff about NLP but what's the overall opinion on NLP versus cognitive behavioural therapy??

Please help me understand this better... If anyone knows of any journal (medical/psychological) articles on the subject, I'd be very grateful.

Sleep well,

Rosie
xxx

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tallulahbell April 18 2006, 10:25:47 UTC

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since you asked... anonymous December 24 2010, 01:06:50 UTC

All therapy is bullshit and based on suggestability. Why would the type of therapy mean anything if it's dependent on the specific therapist? CBT was created by people with the proper academic pedigree and was well received and intergrated into the bullshit box of your therapists tools. NLP was created by the fringe led by a murderous cocaine addict. They have slightly different "terms of art" which mean the same thing. What'll really bake your noodle is when you start to compare therapy methods with religous techniques.

Re: since you asked... anonymous January 19 2011, 21:11:30 UTC

Richard...is that you??

Re: since you asked... anonymous January 29 2011, 22:53:47 UTC

lol This is hilarious...

So since NLP openly admits a lot of it is based on suggestion and self-suggestion it is basically more honest and truthful than CBT? ;)

Many people say that therapy is helpful if they 'click' with the therapist - there's even a special type of therapy called relational therapy..

If you google NLP vs CBT (which I just did and thus found this site lol) you'll find quite some answers...
Apparently NLP people say CBT is incorporated into NLP and some CBT practitioners are learning NLP to add more visuals and kinaesthetic experiences into the mix?

just stumbled on this site trying to research the same :) anonymous January 29 2011, 23:03:25 UTC

Oh, and some visual imagery exercises found in Louise Hay's book You Can Heal Your Life and in Endless Energy by Leslie Kenton&co (where they were called 'gestalt' exercises) have been helpful to me in the past.. those seem a lot like NLP in some ways.. using imagination, not just 'dry words' can be helpful..

NLP seems like Bruce-Lee 'kungfu' of psychology - 'take whatever works' from wherever you can find it..

Don't know of any journals or 'official' articles tho.. Might be difficult because NLP has soo many different approaches, it's like 'open source' psychology/self-help, very many people have many different approaches and creativity is encouraged... (?)

Or you can look at it as CBT is the text ('Notepad/Word' file), NLP also has 'meta text'(photos, dancing/movement, YouTube..)
Both can be useful, in different or same circumstances..