I hugely enjoyed the recently published by Derren Brown entitled ‘Trick of the Mind’ (Channel 4 Books, 2006)

Apart from a fundamental misunderstanding about NLP Modeling, he raises some very reasonable and legitimate questions about the patterns and techniques of NLP and provides some well-earned criticism of the NLP community.

By his account, he attended an NLP Practitioner training course with a company that trains hundreds of people in one room at one time with little or no individual attention from the trainers � more of a seminar than a training course.

I was pleased that he did distinguish John Grinder from this criticism as John�s approach to the science is far more serious, legitimate, realistic, academic and responsible than some other people.

I would recommend that anyone involved with NLP read this book. If NLP is to survive as the powerful methodology conceived by Bandler and Grinder in the 1970�s, these criticisms need to be acknowledged and intelligently addressed.