Milton model
The Milton Model describes how linguistic generalizations, deletions and distortions can be used in such a way that one adds a meaning associatively from one's experience.
The linguistic patterns of the American psychiatrist and hypnotherapist Milton Erickson were collected and analyzed in his therapy protocols by the founders of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), Richard Bandler and John Grinder . In the Milton model named after this, one wants to lead people through imprecise and “artistically vague” language patterns into states that ultimately open the unconscious to hypnotherapeutic effects.
Erasures leave out information: unspecific subjects or verbs, indefinite content references, comparisons and evaluations without reference, nominalization of verbs, verbs expressing feelings. Universal quantifiers , modal operators of necessity or possibility, temporal and causal sentence associations distort or generalize language.
The Milton Model also includes a number of other hypnotic language patterns that are indirect suggestions : embedded commands or questions, negative commands, conversational postulates, quotations, or assumptions.
Some language patterns of the Milton model can often be observed in everyday life. While neuro-linguistic programming is about knowing language patterns of the Milton model and recognizing them in others, hypnotherapy according to Milton Erickson is about using these language patterns in a targeted manner to initiate a trance or to use one's own resources for problem solving in trance Find.
Theoretical and historical background of NLP
- Walker, Wolfgang: Adventure Communication - Bateson, Perls, Satir, Erickson and the Beginnings of Neurolinguistic Programming. Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 1996. ISBN 3-608-91976-7
- What is NLP? Historical-critical article. In: nlp-berlin-brandenburg.de
- On the genesis of NLP. In: nlp-berlin-brandenburg.de
Web links
- Milton language pattern. In: nlp-ausbildung.de
- Milton Model: Full Description. In: 30tausend.de (4 Articles)