Submodalities in NLP This post is to follow on from my post on Sensory Systems in NLP. There’s another, even more fundamental, level of the sensory systems. This is the level of submodalities. Each sense system (visual, auditory, kinaesthetic, olfactory … Continue reading →
PRINCIPLES OF NLP If you ain’t got rapport you ain’t got nothing. You might as well not bother. Rapport is achieved by matching/mirroring (without mimicking), helping you to influence with integrity. To be an effective communicator/therapist you need three things: … Continue reading →
COGNITIVE PSYCHOTHERAPY: COGNITIVE MODEL OF DEPRESSION According to Beck (1986), depression is characterised by the ‘cognitive triad’, reflecting the subject’s negative view of the self, the world, and the future. The depressed person sees himself or herself as deficient, inadequate, deserted … Continue reading →
COGNITIVE PSYCHOTHERAPY: COGNITIONS AND EMOTIONS Cognitive therapy is based on the assumption that our emotions are very strongly linked to the way we think about situations and life events. Our schemata include attitudes and assumptions and are used to classify, interpret, … Continue reading →
COGNITIVE PSYCHOTHERAPY: THE THERAPEUTIC ALLIANCE The therapeutic alliance is the collaboration between the therapist and client in psychotherapy or counselling. It has been claimed that this alliance is one of the most important aspects of the process, whichever techniques are used … Continue reading →
Karen Horney In line with Adler in particular, Karen Horney strongly believes in an innately constructive nature of the human condition. There is a natural tendency towards positive growth, or self-realisation. Only when this tendency is frustrated, again primarily by … Continue reading →
STRUCTURAL MODEL AND INSTINCT THEORY In line with his structural model, Sigmund Freud conceives of the human personality as evolving in three areas. He termed them id (broadly speaking, the biological), ego (the psychological) and superego (the sociological, or simply … Continue reading →
George Kelly George Kelly is the founder of personal construct psychology. Although his writings are not quite as voluminous as those of most of the other theorists studied on this course, his style has been credited as appealing: Let us … Continue reading →
Why Smoke? It is important that you are fully aware of the reasons why people start to smoke and why they continue. Perhaps the crucial factor is that a reason may have been valid once, but may no longer be … Continue reading →
RELAX: LEARN TO LET GO! Refresh Yourself With Self-Hypnosis There are countless books on self-hypnosis, what it does, how it works, techniques for use, etc. There are even more books on relaxation, meditation, self-helpand similar subjects. Many hypnotherapists teach self-hypnosis as a part of their … Continue reading →
