‘Useful versus True’ — Theory, Knowledge and Pseudoscience

Paul Tosey and Jane Mathison
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Paul Tosey: University of Surrey
Jane Mathison: University of Surrey

Chapter 10 in Neuro-Linguistic Programming, 2009, pp 113-128 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract People can be wary of NLP because it is seen as not academically respectable. The worlds of NLP and academe have sometimes been like ships in the night, passing each other without contact and with little awareness of the other’s existence. Stereotypes appear to be common; on the one hand NLP is seen as lacking credible theory and is dismissed as ‘pop’ psychology or ‘pseudoscience’ and, on the other hand, academic theorising is seen as irrelevant to, or even antithetical to, NLP. There seem to have been more success at engagement with academic communities in countries such as France, Germany and Austria, where English is not the first language, than in the UK, the USA and Australia.

Keywords: Practical Knowledge; Propositional Knowledge; Credible Theory; Academic Theorise; Gestalt Therapy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230248311_10

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