I've done management course with Lane 4 who are the 'official mind managers' for the FA. Not sure if they were there when Roy Hodgson was in charge.
Many companies offer NLP to their managers as part of personal development plans - evidence suggests it helps many.

I know that Roy was using Steve Peters when he was at the FA - would be interesting to see if other psychiatrist based consultants are working behind the scenes on Palace players mentality.

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I've been receiving CBT for half a year as a way to deal with depression, anxiety and insomnia. I went in to it scepticaly for eight sessions and have continued ever since. The benefits of it is that I'm not on antidepressants or sleeping pills anymore which makes life easier to deal with.

When in comes to CBT I believe you have to have a strong bond with your therapist and trust them implicitly.

DR. STEVE PETERS: Steven Gerrard & Roy Hodgson on bringing a psychologist in to the camp.

Would be keen to know if Roy has carried this forward to the set up he has at Beckenham. Does anyone know?

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Technically its the other way around, NLP stems more from Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, and there is a lot of 'bullsh*t' around NLP, and more than a few overstatements of what it can achieve.

But it does work, if you work at it, especially in a one on one situation - it works better when you tie it into a behavioural approach, rather than just focus on language and non-verbal communication (Arguably knowing more about how to control NVC is more effective than NLP in the short term).

In my experience the problem with NLP is that it takes a lot of experience to implement, and a lot of patience and generally requires the subject to be at least partially motivated to participate - and its not really very reliable. It forms the basis of a lot of addiction therapy, and its really about retraining the mind and body, rather than reprogramming.

The way its described its often sold as a quick fix, its not. Its not so much programming as retraining.

Scientifically, on its own, its pseudo-scientific nonsense (for the most part), because a lot of the people making claims and presenting it, do so on a scale outside of controlled conditions.

But it does kind of work, its not as effective as people tend to think, because like hypnosis its very subject and situation dependent. A lot of people make claims about its effect on their confidence (for example) without realising that the act of forcing yourself to be more confident, over time will make you more confident.

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As part of trauma therapy from a clinical psychologist or psychiatrist, it could be. But more likely they'd want to tailor therapy programs to suit the individual needs and symptoms of the patient. One of the problems of CBT (from which NLP stems) is that its directed at 'fixing the symptoms' not the causes of a problem. CBT and NLP approaches to alcoholism for example, are more about dealing with the compulsion to drink and the triggers, where as say a 12 step program is more geared towards the alcoholic taking responsibility for their own life and problem with alcohol.

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I found EFT very useful any thoughts