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Six
Blind Elephants:
Understanding Ourselves and Each Other
by Steve Andreas
“This is a wonderfully clear book about how we think and make meaning--and
how to change it. I hope all therapists will have the sense to read it.”
--Ernest Rossi, author of A Discourse with
Our Genes: The Psychosocial Genomics of Therapeutic Hypnosis and Psychotherapy
“This is NLP, but not as we know it. Steve presents simple new distinctions
that offer innovative ways to understand how we think and change. I’d be pleased
if I’d written a chapter of this, because every one is packed with realizations
that emerge out of skillfully chosen examples, revealing what has been hidden
in plain view. Breathtaking insights follow, as they do with any true advance
in the study of human thought. All this, and he has the humility not to announce
that NLP is superseded, and Six Blind Elephants is the replacement. Our field—and
I’m thinking much bigger than NLP—has a new must-read; get it today.”
--Richard Bolstad, NLP trainer, and author of
Resolve: a new method of therapy, and Pro-fusion: creating a life
of abundance.
“Steve Andreas never disappoints his readers—this is another perfect example. In
Elephants, Steve has given us simply the best articulation and definitions ever
written of concepts like scope, category, para-messages, meta-communication,
implication, paradox, and much more. His formulations will be immeasurably appreciated
for years to come. If you are serious about understanding, well, understanding
itself, this is for you!”
--Stephen Lankton, MSW, DAHB, author of Assembling
Ericksonian Therapy, editor of the American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis
“This veritable cornucopia of clinical wisdom and technique offers rich
rewards. Highly recommended!”
--Michael F. Hoyt, Ph.D., author of Some Stories
Are Better than Others, The Present is a Gift, and Interviews with Brief Therapy
Experts
“In this book Steve Andreas has succeeded in something akin to cutting
one’s own hair in a mirror--examining our thinking by thinking about it clearly
and deeply. Reading this book will illuminate the hidden building blocks of
your reality, and show you how you can change it.”
--Bill O’Hanlon, author of Do One Thing Different
“Steve Andreas is an important innovator in the field of psychotherapy,
and in this book he has succeeded at a monumental task. The distinctions that
he makes are templates for understanding the essence of human understanding.”
--Jeffrey K. Zeig, Ph.D., Director, The
Milton Erickson Foundation.
“I’m always impressed by Steve’s depth and breadth of knowledge and his
willingness to push out the boundaries of NLP thinking and development. This
book is yet another outstanding contribution to the field.”
--Julian Russell, NLP Trainer & Transformational
Executive Coach,PPD Consulting Ltd, London, England
“Like Steve’s other books, this one shifts the reader’s experience of words
and communication quite powerfully, offering subtly potent distinctions that
are well worth the mental effort, coming to life in the great examples. Mostly
I’m astounded that in my work with clients I now have a crisper discernment
of scope and category, noticing when my questions are answered or not, and have
more pointed ways of asking for the information that I want. Just reading the
book installs impressive new strategies and choices.”
--Steve Davis, NLP trainer and co-founder, Mirus
Point Facilitators Inc.
“As you tease the reader with your humor, you’re an expert at getting us
to think. After each chapter I was more and more convinced that you have offered
us something new and all-encompassing. You have done for me in the area of counseling
and therapy exactly what mindfulness has done for me in my 50-year search in
the areas of prayer, self-knowledge, growth, and wisdom. I look forward to re-reading
your book with more and more enjoyment. Many, many thanks, Steve, for this rare
gift.”
--Dick McHugh, SJ
“Steve Andreas has provided readers with a thorough, practical and well-written
examination of the ways scope and category affect thought and behavior. As usual,
he gives us powerful tools for understanding and transforming behavior that
will provoke new approaches to communication, change, and personal awakening
for generations of readers.”
--Richard M. Gray, Ph. D., Assistant Professor,
Fairleigh Dickinson University, author, Archetypal Explorations, Creator
of the Brooklyn Program, a strengths-based approach to substance abuse treatment.
“This book is impressive, surprising, and so practical and interesting,
offering readers a new way of understanding mental processes, and providing
specific ways to use and influence them--innovative methods, presented with
striking clarity. Only a master can make complex and revolutionary ideas appear
so simple.”
--Danie Beaulieu, Ph.D., author of Eye Movement
Integration Therapy.
“Steve Andreas’ Six Blind Elephants has the depth and scope that only a
deep knowledge of NLP and its applications to life could provide. Therapists,
coaches, teachers and mentors will find this book useful for its wealth of information
and enjoyable for its many pertinent and entertaining examples and anecdotes.
Steve brings a welcome and much needed humanism to NLP.”
--Michael Colgrass, Pulitzer Prize and Emmy award-winning
composer
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