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The Structure of Magic: A Book About Language and Therapy
Posted: January 11th, 2009, 7:40pm CET by SRUTHIN

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• Hardcover: 225 pages
• Publisher: Science and Behavior Books Inc. (1974)
• Language: English
• ASIN: B001F6K1PC
Description: Fascinating book about strucutre of language, how people represent their external world within their mind, how their speech reflects their representation of the world, and how therapists can use the speech patterns to help people improve their lives. It's a neurolinguistic programming book, based on the work of some very gifted psychotherapists and hypnotists.


This is the first "NLP" book, and is a look at the language used by some great psychotherapists (Milton Erickson, Virginia Satir and Fritz Perls). The book is structured around various linguistic structures and its theoretical basis comes from Noam Chomsky's Transformational Grammar. Because of this the book can be somewhat difficult to read -- as each linguistic structure is presented, the authors give examples of its use and drills for practice in recognizing them.

The book is a must read for anyone who practices psychotherapy, and is useful for anyone involved in communicating with other people (uh, yes, that does mean everyone). It's a great tool for improving the way one thinks, by giving a person the ability to recognize "deficient" uses of everyday language, and when to search for "missing" information in what people say.

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