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The two co-founders published their first book "The Structure of Magic, I" in 1975. In this book, they tried to extract the rules of human verbal communication, which would be equivalent to linguistic grammars or to mathematical formulas, by modelling such genius "therapeutic wizards" as Milton H. Erickson, the most important hypnotherapist , Fritz Perls, the founder of Gestalt Therapy and Virginia Satir, one of the authorities of family therapy. Since around 1980, NLP has transformed itself from a mere alternative tool to psychotherapy to a full-fledged methodology of "communicational psychology", which assists its practitioners in such areas as 1) personal development, 2) creativity enhancement, 3) increased performance, 4) improved communicational skills and 5) accelerated learning. NLP provides us with a view or model of the world; these are outlined in the NLP presuppositions. NLP doesn't claim that they are necessarily true, but they turn out to be an exciting and inspiring way to see the world and how we interact within it. Guhen Kitaoka, who has been trained by both the co-founders of NLP, finds that John Grinder is the best theoretician of NLP, Richard Bandler the best practitioner of NLP, and Robert Dilts, one of their students, the best inventor of NLP techniques. Indeed, techniques invented by Dilts, such as
"Meta Mirror", "Resonance Pattern", and "Belief
System Integration", are extremely powerful in achieving the five
aims mentioned above, along with another technique "Submodalities"
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