Introducing Neuro-Linguistic Programming: Psychological Skills for Understanding and Influencing People

I met Mr. Joseph O'Connor in 2002 in the NLP Master Practitioner course with NLP Comprehensive, Denver, USA. I started my journey in NLP with this book and before any training I got. I can passionately say, this is the "BEST INTRODUCTORY BOOK I EVER RED IN NLP".

The main contribution of the Authors, in my opinion, was to segregate, organize, and simplify an interrelated material of NLP into very Compressive Homogeneous Easy Reading Chapters. This is very essential to any beginner who wants to understand, how to put together Neuro with Linguistic with programming..!!!!???? It is a very fragmented title that is difficult to be structured to any beginner, in my opinion. It is really a very challenging task, but the authors did extremely well in their texting.

The other main contribution of the Authors, in my opinion, was the amount of knowledge they expressed. They refer, if I am not exaggerating, to every Book that has been written upon their time. And I am welling to bet, that they did not write this book until they have digested every aspects of NLP.

This book is a very condensed and a long reading book, though it is very interesting. I still consider this book as a reference material. But honestly, I could not find any other book better for the beginner.

The only comment I have to any NLP beginner, is to depend more on training than reading, to understand and apply NLP. NLP is all about "How to Apply".

If you want to know NLP, this is the best beginning for you....Have a great reading; you will never regret it..!!!!.

I have only read the first chapter so far, but the principles in just that one chapter have already helped me influence clients.

The book is well written and easy to read/understand.

For anyone coming new to this emergent field of self-improvement this book will be the perfect introduction. Having said that it's a getting a bit `long in the tooth' now! Nevertheless, it provides a comprehensive and very readable outline of the fundamental principles, that haven't changed. As is commonly the case with introductory NLP texts, it opens with a brief outline of the history of the development of NLP beginning with the early association and subsequent collaboration between John Grinder and Richard Bandler and the influence that Gregory Bateson had on this process. It then progresses to examining, in a series of chapters, the basics, examples of which are; communication, rapport, pacing and leading, representational systems, predicates, sub-modalities, anchors, feedback, the Meta Model, nominalizations, presuppositions, the Milton Model, metaphor, reframing, timelines, conflict and congruence, metaprograms, Phobia cure, the Swish pattern and modelling.

As has been said before, there are some, what might be described as, `dry sections' in the book. This cannot be helped; there is simply no other way to communicate the material and, overall, O'Connor and Seymour do a brilliant job. If you don't mind `touchy feely new age' writing and, I have to say, usually of U.S. origin, there are other books out there that cover similar ground but, for me, this is good `old fashioned' no nonsense information delivery that is comprehensive and entertaining.

I cannot recommend it highly enough!

I bought this book many years ago, I read it more than once and I still go back to it as a basic textbook reference from time to time. It is the best, clearest and most structured introduction to the principles of NLP, mind filters and language patterns that I have found so far. True, there are books that take the concepts in this book to much deeper and more advanced learning but not for anything this book is called "Introducing NLP" and that is what it does exactly, and it does it remarkably well.

Stefania Lucchetti
Author of "The Principle of Relevance" [[ASIN:9889975823 The Principle of Relevance]]

I'm in the middle of reading this book, but alreay it has many amazing reviews and I believe it to be one of the best if not THE best kind of cornerstone survey (and in depth) catch all with hte best application and detailed description of all nlp concepts. This book (along with a canadian author Ellerton) i highly recommend. I'm a nlp practitioner, author, and therapist but I ahven't made any money doing those, but I've written 4 ebooks on nlp related material and i could go on...i hate religion, but this book is the closest thing to a "guidance bible" it kicks ace!!

Interesting information, but it helps to comewith an interest!

Great!!!

Love it!

It just didn't catch my attention.

Very informative.