Product Details
The Structure of Magic I: A Book About Language and Therapy v. 1 (Structure of Magic): A Book About Language and Therapy

The Structure of Magic I: A Book About Language and Therapy v. 1 (Structure of Magic): A Book About Language and Therapy
By John Grinder, Richard Bandler

Price: £17.99 & eligible for FREE Super Saver Delivery on orders over £15. Details

Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
Dispatched from and sold by Amazon.co.uk

38 new or used available from £7.52

Average customer review:
This is a book to study rather than bedtime reading. If you are fascinated by reading an introduction to NLP this will get you in deeper

Product Details

  • Amazon Sales Rank: #14825 in Books
  • Published on: 1989-11-01
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 198 pages

Customer Reviews

Not an easy read3
Not the best read I've ever purchased but does include some useful information. Having been on one of John Grinder's NLP courses I am surprised just how badly written this book is, considering the man is extreemly clever. Unless you are really into NLP / Hypnosis I would look elsewhere for a read.

OK, but could have been so much better...3
A bit more readable compared to "Patterns of the Hypnotic Techniques of Milton H. Erickson" but still not terribly well-written.

I'd give it 3.5 stars.

The journey to NLP? Nah, just enjoy the NLP journey!5
I think if you are to approach this book from the angle of it being a 'journey to nlp', maybe you wont ever get there. It can be kinda tricky like that. But having done some proper homework, i found that this book was indeed written after Bandler and Grinder had successfully modeled Erickson's approach. A quick Google and we find "In 1974, Bandler and Grinder began to make a model of the language patterns used by Perls, Satir and Hypnotherapist Milton H. Erickson, which they published in their books 'The Structure of Magic Volumes 1 & 2 (1975, 1976)...". But sometimes it's easier to just believe something without doing homework! As for whether you will become a 'Derren Brown' (whatever 'that'/he is!), well, NLP is all about modelling, so who can say what's possible given some good tools, right? Some review rs may posses a talent for clairvoyancey. lol but whatever. This is a great book, and one written by some of the true geniuses of our time.

The journey to NLP? Nah, just enjoy the NLP journey!