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Research on NLP
One of the most frequently asked questions most of us in the NLP community get is: "Where is your research?" Well, there are a number of answers to that question, but essentially the answer is: "All over the place. You just have to know where to look." A great place to start is on the web at: http://www.nlp.de
We provide a link to this site, so look under Links for that site. This site gives a pretty good listing of NLP research, though I don’t think it’s by any means complete. The history of research in NLP is pretty ugly in terms of the quality, organization, competence and intentions of those doing it. It used to be regularly compiled, until about the mid-1980’s but the person who was doing that decided to get a life ... But research continues, some of it good, some awful and a lot of it just plain confusing. I could write a book on it, but I promise, I won’t. If you were to try to survey the research and come to any conclusions, you’d surrender quickly. Some research says NLP is totally wonderful, some says it’s totally fake, some is so off-the-wall you can’t tell what it says. In some cases this is supposedly identical research that comes up with diametrically opposed results. If you are familiar with how research is generally done, this will be no surprise.
A Current Research Project in NLP
Peter Schutz, a long time friend and NLP trainer in Vienna has been helping to organize a large multi-country research project on NLP in psychotherapy. They did a preliminary study for about three years that set up the design to do a larger one. They limited themselves to actual well-trained NLP’ers doing the work with people in a variety of settings and countries and for a variety of problems. The results of the first study, as you might expect since these were well-trained NLP therapists (as opposed to first year graduate students with one lecture on one aspect of theory and virtually no training in what to do–one typical design from the "professional research community in academia), were extremely good.
So, The Austrian Training center for NLP in cooperation with others is now beginning the more ambitious project of extending this greatly. The goal is "to establish once and for all within the scientific + statistical criteria of the "established psychological/medical community" that psychotherapy with well trained NLP'ers (NLPt) is efficient , practical and possible. The plan is to have 200 therapists from Europe and 200 from the USA participating, each with 3-9 clients. If you would like to know more, or actually participate in the study as a therapist, let me know and I can give you all the information you would need. If you want to check on what is going on now, go to: http://www.nlpzentrum.at/studie2000