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Two common questions asked about NLP are, does it have any theory; and what is distinctive about it? Many NLP practitioners would probably agree with McDermott & O’Connor, that ‘the root of NLP’s individuality lies in its presuppositions’ (1996:58).1 What are these and where did they originate? Do they indicate that NLP has any theoretical basis?
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© 2009 Paul Tosey and Jane Mathison
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Tosey, P., Mathison, J. (2009). The Presuppositions of NLP. In: Neuro-Linguistic Programming. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230248311_9
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