Main description:

This is the second edition of this highly respected introduction to Medical Neuro-linguistic Programming, which remains the official handbook for the Society for Medical NLP and was both a critical and a commercial success in its first edition. Based on the work of Dr Richard Bandler, who has again contributed the Foreword, Medical NLP has developed to become a discipline in its own right, guided by Garner Thomson. Revised and updated throughout, significant new sections have been added on: priming; breathing; heart rate; sleep; relationships and cancer; and lifestyle diseases. This is a key resource for all health practitioners who want to understand and improve the effects of what they communicate, consciously and unconsciously, to their patients/clients.

Contents:

Towards healing and health; Stress and allostatic load; Avoiding compassion fatigue; Words that harm, words that heal; Primes and priming; Structure, process and change; Taming the runaway brain; The rules of engagement; The uninterrupted story; The clinical questioning matrix; Accessing patient resources; The symptom as solution; A different kind of reason; Getting to where you want to go; Thinking time; Medical NLP algorithms for change; Hypnosis in healing and health; Coherence, chaos and octopus traps; From functional to functioning; Working with the glyph; Re-patterning and future-pacing; making something of your world; Nine minutes and counting; Communicating for life