Book Reviews

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In this section selected books will be reviewed. Particular emphasis will be placed on recent books in the fields of Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Hypnosis, and Cognitive Therapy.

Review of: Six Blind Elephants, volumes one and two, by Steve Andreas (2006). These books are about “scope” and “category” – and how we experience and understand ourselves, others, and our worlds. For therapists or other change agents, understanding “scope” and “category” opens up new possibilities for helping people change. Go to the review.

Review of: The Rainbow Machine: Tales form a neurolinguist’s journal, by Andrew T. Austin (2007). This is a book of short stories and articles, many of them anecdotal, illustrating the use of various neurolinguistic techniques with humor, wit, and insight. Go to the review.

Review of: Neurolinguistic Psychotherapy: A postmodern perspective, by Lisa Wake (2008). This book is a well researched, extensively referenced, and scholarly examination of neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) and the advancing model of neurolinguistic psychotherapy. Go to the review.

Quotes, Change & Enrichment:

“The path to our destination is not always a straight one. We go down the wrong road, we get lost, we turn back. Maybe it doesn't matter which road we embark on. Maybe what matters is that we embark.”-Barbara Hall.

“Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.”-King Whitney Jr.

“Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.”-Winston Churchill.

Quotes, Knowledge & Discovery:

“Mistakes are the portals of discovery.”-James Joyce.

“That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.”-Doris Lessing.

“All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.”-Galileo Galilei.

Quotes, Strategies:

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.”-Marcel Proust.

“Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.”-William James.

“No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.”-Albert Einstein.

“Change enough of the little pictures, and you change the big picture.”-Ashleigh Brilliant.