Neuro-Linguistic Programming Reading List

The only true voyage, the only bath in the Fountain of Youth, would be not to visit strange worlds but to possess other eyes, to see the unverse through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to see the hundred universes that each of them sees, that each of them is...

Marcel Proust, "The Captive"

Worth Reading

Ashby, W. Ross (1956) An Introduction to Cybernetics. London: Chapman & Hall Ltd.
Bandler, Richard and John Grinder (1975) The Structure of Magic, Volume 1. Palo Alto, CA: Science and Behavior Books, Inc.
Bandler, Richard and John Grinder (1975) Patterns of the Hypnotic Techniques of Milton H. Erickson, M.D., Vol. 1. Cupertino, CA: Meta Publications.
Bateson, Gregory (1979) Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity. New York: Bantam Books.
Bateson, Gregory (1972) Steps to an Ecology of Mind. New York: Ballantine Books.
Bateson, Gregory and Mary Catherine Bateson (1987) Angels Fear: Towards an Epistemology of the Sacred. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company.
Bohm, David (1985) Unfolding Meaning. London: Ark Paperbacks.
Cameron-Bandler, Leslie; David Gordon; and Michael Lebeau (1985) Know How. San Rafael, CA: FuturePace, Inc.
Cameron-Bandler, Leslie and Michael Lebeau (1986) The Emotional Hostage. San Rafael, CA: FuturePace, Inc.
Cameron-Bandler, Leslie; Michael Lebeau; and David Gordon (1985) The Emprint Method. San Rafael, CA: FuturePace, Inc.
Clavell, James (1981) The Children's Story. New York: Dell Publishing.
Damasio, Antonio (1994) Descartes' Error. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons.
Damasio, Antonio (1999) The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness. New York: Harcourt Brace & Company.
Darwin, Charles (1872) The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. Chicago: University of Chicago Press (1965).
Dawes, Graham (1997) "The Significance of Neuro-Linguistic Programming in the Therapy of Anxiety Disorders". Clinical Management of Anxiety. Johan A. den Boer (ed.). New York: Marcel Dekker Inc.
Dawes, Graham (1999) "Faster Than a Speeding Bullet: The Quick Change Speed Trials". Anchor Point. Vol. 13, No. 2.
Dawes, Graham and John Killman (2000) "The Excellent Auditor". Qualityworld. Institute of Quality Assurance. Vol. 26, Issue 3.
Diamond, Jared (1984) "Race Without Color". Discover Magazine. pp.82-89.
Dilts, Robert; John Grinder; Richard Bandler; Leslie Cameron Bandler and Judith DeLozier (1980) Neuro-Linguistic Programming: Volume 1. Cupertino, CA: Meta Publications.
Edelman, Gerald (1992) Bright Air, Brilliant Fire. New York: BasicBooks.
Edwards, Betty (1999) The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam.
Festinger, Leon; Henry W. Riecken; and Stanley Schachter (1956) When Prophecy Fails. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Frankl, Victor (1984) Man's Search for Meaning. New York: Washington Square Press.
Gordon, David (1990) "Reference Experiences: Guardians of Coherence and Instigators of Change". Brief Therapy: Myths, Methods, and Metaphors. Zeig and Gilligan (eds.) New York: Brunner/Mazel.
Gordon, David (1988) "The Role of Language in Therapy". Developing Ericksonian Therapy. Zeig and Lankton (eds). New York: Brunner/Mazel.
Gordon, David (1985) "The Role of Presuppositions in Ericksonian Psychotherapy". Ericksonian Psychotherapy, Volume I: Structures. Zeig (ed). New York: Brunner/Mazel.
Gordon, David and Maribeth Meyers-Anderson (1981) Phoenix: Therapeutic Patterns of Milton H. Erickson. Cupertino, CA: Meta Publications.
Gould, Stephen Jay (1996) Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin. New York: Three Rivers Press.
Grandin, Temple (1996) Thinking in Pictures. New York: Vintage Books.
Haley, Jay (1973). Uncommon Therapy: The Psychiatric Techniques of Milton H. Erickson, M.D. New York: W.W. Norton & Company.
Hall, Edward T. (1976) Beyond Culture. Garden City, NY: Anchor Press/Doubleday.
Hall, Edward T. (1983) The Dance of Life. Garden City, NY: Anchor Press/Doubleday.
Hall, Edward T. (1966) The Hidden Dimension. Garden City, NY: Anchor Books.
Hall, Edward T. (1959) The Silent Language. New York: Doubleday & Company.
Jaynes, Julian (1976) The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company.
Koornhof, Piet (2001) "The Makings of Genius". The Strad. Vol. 112, No. 1338.
Korzybski, Alfred (1958) Science and Sanity. Lakeville, Connecticut: The International Non-Aristotelian Library Publishing Company.
Korzybski, Alfred (1951) "The Role of Language in the Perceptual Processes". Perception: An Approach to Personality. Robert R. Blake and Glenn V. Ramsey (eds.). New York: The Ronald Press Company.
Kuhn, Thomas S. (1970) The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Lakoff, George and Mark Johnson (1980) Metaphors We Live By. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
Lakoff, George and Mark Johnson (1999) Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Western Thought. New York: Basic Books.
Lakoff, George and Mark Turner (1989) More Than Cool Reason: A Field Guide to Poetic Metaphor. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
LeDoux, Joseph (1998) The Emotional Brain. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
MacDonald, Celia and Steve Nuttall (2000) "Team Magic: An Exploration of Competencies and Abilities in Team Working". The National Training Organization for Oil and Gas Extraction. Internal report.
Maturana, Humberto and Francisco Varela (1987) The Tree of Knowledge. Boston: New Science Library.
McCloud, Scott (1993) Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art. New York: Harper Perennial.
Miller, George A.; Eugene Galanter; and Karl H. Pribram (1960) Plans and the Structure of Behavior. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc.
Ornstein, Robert and David Sobel (1987) The Healing Brain. New York: Simon & Schuster Inc.
Penfield, Wilder and Phanor Perot (1963) "The Brain's Record of Auditory and Visual Experience". Brain. VOL. 86, PART 4.
Pert, Candace B. (1997) Molecules of Emotion. New York: Touchstone.
Petitmengin-Peugeot, Claire (1999) "The Intuitive Experience". The View from Within: First-Person Approaches to the Study of Consciousness. Francisco Varela and Jonathan Shear (eds.). Thorverton, UK: Imprint Academic.
Rheingold, Howard (1988) They Have a Word For It : A Lighthearted Lexicon of Untranslatable Words & Phrases. Los Angeles: Jeremy P. Tarcher, Inc.
Sachs, Oliver (1995) An Anthropologist on Mars. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
Sachs, Oliver (1987) The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. New York: Harper & Row.
Vaihinger, I. (1924) The Philosophy of "As If". London: Routledge, Kegan and Paul, Ltd.
Varela, Francisco; Evan Thompson; and Eleanor Rosch (1997) The Embodied Mind. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
Watzlawick, Paul; John Weakland; and Richard Fisch (1974) Change: Principles of Problem Formation and Problem Resolution. New York: W.W. Norton & Company.
Zeig, Jeffery K. ((1980) A Teaching Seminar with Milton H. Erickson. New York: Brunner/Mazel.
Zeig, Jeffery K. and Brent Geary (2000). The Letters of Milton H. Erickson. Phoenix AZ: Zeig, Tucker & Theisen.

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