Rafael Alves's Reviews > The Structure of Magic I: A Book about Language and Therapy

This book is NOT about mind manipulation, it's NOT about reading minds, it can't even be used for misguided purposes for if anything, this book will tell us how in a simplified way, we operate in the world through our minds and build different internal representations of the world based on what we have experienced - some chances for improvement and action, or lack of choice and freedom. And even the techniques distilled by Bandler and Grinder from all sorts of therapeutic are confied therefor to the walls of therapeutic work, this is NOT to be used idly or for sports but in careful closed guided consideration one must have to fix our learned disabilities if i can use such a word i don't agree with myself.

Now The Structure of Magic specifically applies to the explicit grammatic structure of a person's understanding of the world, it focuses on the 'well formed in therapy'. syntax and consistency between ideas and uttered sentences by the client and the therapist has first and foremost to grasp enough of the client's model of the world so that he can, by asking the right questions, show a hidden option that the client can take or was always able to take but couldn't see.

Very excited about Volume II, should go into integrating sensorial perceptions more brashly with the digital, that is words themselves. A must read for every potential and current therapist, and enthusiasts of the field.