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NLP
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Worldview

USES
Therapy
Persuasion

DEVELOPERS
Richard Bandler
John Grinder
Robert Dilts
Judith Delozier
Stephen Gilligan

INFLUENCES
Fritz Perls
Milton H. Erickson
Virginia Satir
Syntax
Gregory Bateson
Alfred Korzybski

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This article is about the alternative interpersonal communications and psychotherapy model, neuro-linguistic programming. For the similarly named interdisciplinary field, see neurolinguistics.
Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) is an interpersonal communication model and an alternative approach to psychotherapy[1] based on the subjective study of language, communication and personal change.[2]

It was co-created by Richard Bandler and linguist John Grinder in the 1970s. The initial focus was pragmatic, modeling three successful psychotherapists, Fritz Perls (Gestalt Therapy), Virginia Satir (Family Systems Therapy), and eventually Milton H. Erickson (Clinical Hypnosis), with the aim of discovering what made these individuals more successful than their peers. [3]

Today the predominant patterns of NLP, the application of those patterns, and many variants of NLP are found in seminars, workshops, books and audio programs in the form of exercises and principles intended to influence change in self and others. There is a great deal of difference between the depth and breadth of training and standards, and some disagreement between those in the field about which patterns are and are not "NLP". While the field of NLP is loosely spread and resistant to a single comprehensive definition, there