NLP and ethics: Epistemological exploration in order to elaborate an ethical frame for the model of NLP

Authors

  • Gerd Bauer

Abstract

Through a description of the status-quo of the “phenomenon NLP" from three perspectives the article shows the necessity of a 1ogica1ref1ected theoretical foundation for the NLP-model to guarantee the credibility and the discussibility of this model. For that, the NLP-model will be examined to its internal consequences and to its implicit and explicit foundations and roots. Theoretical deficiencies will be exhibited. It follows a revision of the preassumptions of the NLP. Based on this revision and new classification of the NLP-foun-dations, founded in a epistemology of radiacal-con-structivism, essential ethical criteria of the NLP-model are explanated. They are founded in the NLP-model itself. So they’re able to show the aims and limits of working with NLP independent of the individual employers. By this way the article shows an ecological, that means an ethical founded employment of NLP.

Keywords:
NLP, epistemology, ecology, radical-con-structivism, ethics, theoretical foundation of NLP

Author Biography

Gerd Bauer

Gerd Bauer, geb. 1961, ist evangelischer Theologe, Psychotherapeut und NLP-Master-Practitioner. Er arbeitet in seinen Praxisfeldern insbesondere mit Methoden des NLP. Er hält eine reflektierte Anwendung des NLP mit einem entsprechend hohen Anteil an vorausgegangener Selbsterfahrung für hilfreich und weiterführend in kommunikations-, bildungs- und gesundheitsbezogenen Bereichen der Gesellschaft. Einen erkenntnistheoretisch begründeten Methodendialog, mit dem Ziel sachlich angemessener Integration verschiedener Psychotherapiekonzepte auch in der Theorieentwicklung, hält er für zukunftsweisend.

Korrespondenz: Gerd Bauer, Pfarrstraße 3, D-91207 Schönberg/Lauf

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Published

1997-07-01

How to Cite

Bauer, G. (1997). NLP and ethics: Epistemological exploration in order to elaborate an ethical frame for the model of NLP. Psychotherapie-Wissenschaft, 5(3), 151–167. Retrieved from https://psychotherapie-wissenschaft.info/article/view/607

Issue

No. 3 (1997): Psychotherapie Forum 5/3 (veröffentlicht bei Springer Wien New York)

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