Psycho-Cybernetics:NLP?

[Michael Glowacki]

Does Psycho-Cybernetics have any relation with NLP?

I'm entering the process of NLP, and I've gotten the tools and found this
great discussion group.

Now just as I begin study, I learn about this fore-runner of NLP and such
technologies called Psycho-Cybernetics and "Zero-resitance Living." This
was developed by Dr. Maxwell Maltz in the 1960's to address the same
troubles people use NLP for such as fear, recovery and insecurity and
quickly become successful.

I'll look it over out of open-minded curiosity. Yet, the real question I
have is what can anybody here tell me about Psycho-Cybernetics (P-C)?

How does NLP and PC differ or complement each other? Or are they roughly
the same?

Did Bandler or Grinder draw on the prior work in the books by Maxwell Maltz?

Thanks for your input.

--
Michael Glowacki
http://userpages.itis.com/mjg/ <mjg at writeme.com>

[j]

Michael Glowacki wrote:
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> Does Psycho-Cybernetics have any relation with NLP?

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> Did Bandler or Grinder draw on the prior work in the books by Maxwell Maltz?
>

IMHO, there are similarities between the two. The underlying
psychophysiological processes are the same, but Dr. Maltz explains the
process in a different way. I just comes down to models. Gregory
Bateson and others were years ahead of Maltz regarding cybernetic theory
and feedback loops. (Bateson is one person whom Richard Bandler
modelled.

Richard's model (or map) is different (and more specific) in that it
recognizes while everyone has a neurology, and reticuloendorthelial
system, and an imagination, the way information is ORGANIZED within each
individual is different, and that is the "difference that makes the
difference".

NLP is about *subjective* experience. The neurological framework is the
same, but change can be more effective and can come more quickly if it's
taylored to the individual.