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Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) is an approach to communication and personal development created in the 1970s based on connections between neurology, language, and behavioral patterns. According to some scientists and linguists, NLP makes incorrect claims and lacks evidence, though its founders say it can address issues like phobias and depression. NLP has been adopted by some therapists but reviews find it contains errors and failed to produce reliable results for its effectiveness claims. Critics argue NLP exhibits pseudoscientific characteristics and appears on lists of discredited interventions.

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Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) is an approach to communication and personal development created in the 1970s based on connections between neurology, language, and behavioral patterns. According to some scientists and linguists, NLP makes incorrect claims and lacks evidence, though its founders say it can address issues like phobias and depression. NLP has been adopted by some therapists but reviews find it contains errors and failed to produce reliable results for its effectiveness claims. Critics argue NLP exhibits pseudoscientific characteristics and appears on lists of discredited interventions.

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Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) is an approach to communication, personal development, and psychotherapy created in the 1970s.

The title refers to a stated connection between the neurological processes ("neuro"), language ("linguistic") and behavioral patterns that have been learned through experience ("programming") and can be organized to achieve specific goals in life.[1][2] According to certain neuroscientists,[3] psychologists[4][5] and linguists,[6][7] NLP is unsupported by current scientific evidence, and uses incorrect and misleading terms and concepts. The founders of NLP, Richard Bandler and John Grinder, say that NLP is capable of addressing problems such as phobias, depression, habit disorder,psychosomatic illnesses, and learning disorders, and helps people attain fuller and richer lives"[8][9] Bandler and Grinder claimed that if the effective patterns of behaviour of exceptional people could be modeled then these patterns could be acquired by others. [10] NLP has been adopted by private therapists, including hypnotherapists, and those who undertake training in NLP and apply it to their practice. It has also been promoted as a "science of excellence", and applied within management training, life coaching, alternative medicine, large group awareness training, and the self-help industry.[11] Reviews of empirical research on NLP indicate that NLP contains numerous factual errors,[12][13] and has failed to produce reliable results for the claims for effectiveness made by NLPs originators and proponents.[5][14] According to Devilly,[15] NLP is no longer as prevalent as it was in the 70s and 80s. Criticisms go beyond the lack of empirical evidence for effectiveness; critics say that NLP exhibits pseudoscientific characteristics,[15] title,[3] concepts and terminology.[6] NLP is used as an example of pseudoscience for facilitating the teaching of scientific literacy at the professional and university level.[7][16] [17] NLP also appears on peer reviewed expert-consensus based lists of discredited interventions.[5] In research designed to identify the quack factor in modern mental health practice, Norcross et al. (2006) [18] list NLP as possibly or probably discredited, and in papers reviewing discredited interventions for substance and alcohol abuse, Norcross et al. (2008)[19] list NLP in the top ten most discredited, and Glasner-Edwards and Rawson (2010) list NLP as certainly discredited.[20]

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