Neurolinguistic Psychotherapy (2008) by Lisa Wake is a well researched, extensively referenced, and scholarly examination of neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) and the advancing model of neurolinguistic psychotherapy.  I enthusiastically recommend this book to clinicians, researchers, NLP practitioners, and anyone interested in advancing the science and theory of NLP. GO TO FULL BOOK REVIEW

I also recommend the 2002 book by Richard Bolstad, RESOLVE: A New Model of Therapy.  This book integrative and practical.  Bolstad makes connections between NLP and other models of psychotherapy.  He presents a perspective on the utility of NLP as an explanatory model, as NLP concepts are useful for explaining what therapist from many orientations do. GO TO FULL BOOK REVIEW

The Rainbow Machine:  Tales from a Neurolinguist’s Journal by Andrew T. Austin  is a book definitely different from most books on NLP or hypnosis. 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…… This book is unique and well worth reading.  Go to the full review.

Six Blind Elephants, volumes one and two, by Steve Andreas (2006)  is a very worthwhile read.  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…..The Six Blind Elephants volumes demonstrate that Andreas continues to be one of the foremost thinkers advancing the development of neuro-linguistic programming (NLP).  In my estimation these volumes will have a long term impact on future direction of NLP.  Indeed the concepts here can be explanatory in understanding how NLP and other therapeutic processes work.  As essentially any change in emotion, response, cognition, and behavior can be examined as scope and category shifts. . . Go to the full review.