Criticism of nlp international scholars

Robert Carroll, an American philosopher, pointed out that NLP rarely mentions the theories of neuroscientists or scientists who study the brain. In addition, NLP is difficult to define accurately. NLP experts are always ambiguous. It can be understood that NLP means different things to different people. More generally, NLP reprograms people's brains to help them change.

Dale Kirby, the "master" of NLP, said: "NLP is irrefutable." He said that there is no "failure" in NLP, only feedback. Carol criticized: Is it just "feedback" that the US space shuttle exploded and all the crew on board died?

NLP is very effective in teaching people "cold reading" and guiding people to draw meaning from meaningless things. Carol criticized: this is not a science, but a trick, which is more common in fortune telling and so-called "channeling" and should be treated with caution. NLP believes that everyone has a "primitive representative system" (PRS) and tends to think in a certain mode, such as vision, hearing, smell, taste and motor feeling. A person's PRS is determined by the words he is used to or the direction of eye movement. For example, if the therapist matches the patient's PRS, it is easy to establish a harmonious relationship. According to the survey conducted by the American Journal of Consulting Psychology and the National Research Council in the mid-1980s, it is considered that NLP theories and statements such as PRS lack research foundation. Some psychologists have not found any therapeutic effect of NLP through research.

Barry Bergestam, a Canadian psychologist, pointed out that many terms of NLP, such as "eye reading", "secondary sensory element" and "representative system", are all deceptive and give people the illusion of "science".

Dr. Grant Deville, a clinical psychologist in Melbourne School of Psychological Science, Australia, questioned NLP, arguing that its advertising was very strong, but in fact its theory was "imperceptible" and had many pseudoscientific characteristics: it preached unattainable goals, artificially created "credibility" and used common misconceptions to attack critics by innuendo.

20 10 Thomas Vitcovschi, a professor of psychology at the Warsaw Institute of Social Psychology, said that "neurolinguistics Programming" failed to give any explanation at the level of "nerves", which had nothing to do with what the academic circles referred to as "linguistics" and "programming". It was pseudoscience and incredible psychotherapy. "NLP means a kind of pseudo-scientific rubbish and should be cancelled forever." -Thomas Vitcovschi, Professor of Psychology, Warsaw Institute of Social Psychology.