#NLP has been used by a number of individual psychiatrists, psychiatric nurses, cognitive counsellors, general practitioners. However, there aren't many non-NLP peer-reviewed Journalarticles published on the efficacy of NLP in specific clinical problems, due to a number of reasons, including the lack of endorsement from academic circles, NLP practitioner lack of resources in conducting clinical trial, technical difficulties designing well-designed studies in psychotherapy etc. You will most likely find personal testimonytestimonies rather than numerical data. There was an RCT by Krugman 1985 on comparing speech anxiety of subjects with waiting for 1 hr against single session phobia intervention, disproofing any differences between the two. However, this study did not reflect authentic clinical problems, such as PSTD, so it is hard to extrapolate actual clinical effectiveness from this study alone. Acosta et. al. discussed about the use of various techniques like NLP, Ericksonian hypnosis, Emergency Medical Hypnosis by emergency mental health practitionners in situations like the 9/11. Int J Emerg Ment Health. 2002 Spring;4(2):119-26
# Ericksonian therapy is not NLP-derived. It's important to distinguish 2 versions of Ericksonian hypnosis, namely, Ericksonian School of Hypnotherapy, based on writingsteachings of Erickson, Rossi et.al., and Ericksonian Hypnosis as modeled by Richard Bandler (NLP map of Ericksonian Hypnosis). Like most forms of psychotherapy, it is extremely hard to evaluate Ericksonian hypnotherapy using randomized controlled trials. I think Ericksonian hypnotherapy has a slightslightly better recognition in psychiatry than NLP, but it is still far from mainstream. Also it is a lot easier to train residences to prescribe psychotropic medication and train residences to do therapy. There are a number of case studies on Ericksonian hypnosis (non-NLP version) published in peer-reviewed journaljournals. (see Pubmed) --[[User:Dejakitty|Dejakitty]] 00:05, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
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