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The structure of magic, Richard Bandler & John Grinder SET of Two Volumes

The structure of magic, Richard Bandler & John Grinder SET of Two Volumes

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The structure of magic, Richard Bandler & John Grinder

Two Volumes Set 

Volume One: A book about language and therapy
What we have attempted to do in Volume I of The Structure of Magic is not to create a new school of psychotherapy but rather to make understandable and learnable some of the language skills of some of the world's most talented psychotherapists. We do this in a way which shows both the simplicity and the similarities of the techniques of these seemingly divergent therapists. Our hope is that this work will begin the long overdue process of sharing the resources of all those who are involved in finding ways to help people have better, fuller and richer lives.

Volume Two: A book about Communication & Change 
In this second volume in the series, the authors bring their special skills as model-builders to the area of non-verbal communication. They extend their explicit model of verbal communication created in Volume I of the Magic series, using the patterns of verbal form as a way of helping the reader to identify and use the patterns of non-verbal communication.

The book is in five parts. In Part I, the authors present techniques for identifying and utilizing a client's most frequently used way of making sense of his ongoing experience. One of the greatest challenges faced by people in the helping professions is making contact with and communicating effectively with the people who come to them for help in changing. Some clients are auditory, some kinesthetic, and some are highly visual. The book helps therapists understand and shift their communication strategy to meet the client on the level of his particular and specific model of the world.

Part Il presents an explicit model for nonverbal communication in the context of working with clients who are incongruent in their communication. They review the work of Gregory Bateson and his colleagues as well as make a definitive study of the double message problem in communication. 

In Part Ill, the authors present a detailed discussion of the process underlying the phenomenon of semantic ill-formedness, which alludes to representation clients create which lead them into ineffective communication patterns and loss of choice in their experience. The neurology underlying this phenomenon is introduced in Volume I. In this volume detailed case histories are used to identify and show how effectively the process behind the initially purely verbal category of semantic ill-formedness can be challenged.

The delicate and complete area of family therapy is presented in Part IV. In this section, Grinder and Bandler show how the same patterns which are so effective in individual therapy are present in effective family therapy, but are organized in a different way. Central to this part is the discussion of the Pairing Principle—a widely applicable principle which makes the process by which people find one another and form pairs understandable.

Part V contains a formalization of all the techniques presented in Volumes I and Il. Volume Il of The Structure of Magic is a rich, detailed, delightfully-written presentation of models for effective therapy. It presents a model for human communication, and at the same time offers specific exercises and techniques which will sharpen the skills which people in the helping professions are constantly striving to do.

Details

  • Hardcover with dust jacket (has very light wear and tear, see photos) 
  • ISBN: 0831400447 - 0831400498
  • Condition: Volume One - good, has some sparse underlining and a written name on the first page - Volume Two - Very Good 
  • Publisher: Science and Behavior Books
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