If you don't know who Derren Brown is, I highly recommend you look him up, he's a saint here at the Ranting Walrus. Derren makes his living royally fucking around with peoples' heads. The things he can do with your mind are astounding, like this. All this is done using a bizarre, relatively new branch of psychology known as Neurolinguistics Programming, or NLP.
I asked a friend of mine, Dr. Richard Gray, Ph.D, on how Derren did this particular trick. Dr. Gray has a Ph.D in psychology and is a certified master practitioner of NLP with years of study and experience behind him. There are his words, used without permission and hopefully he wont be angry with me for sharing:
1. Establish rapport and get him to do something. "Bring that chair over here". This establishes a yes set, a cooperative frame.
2. Have the subject remember the state and differentiate the state from others: you’re a cider man not a beer man. Remember the state and disassemble it into sequences of feelings. Note how he questions him about sequences of experience. First place he was aware of the experience---in the mouth, then back of throat, and what was felt there. Then down to the sternum and what was felt there. To the stomach, etc. First, I think he touches the leg as an anchor for each step.
3. As he repeats the steps, each time the subject names a place and a specific felt memory of that specific sensation, he touches him there with a very specific kind of touch, an anchor. In some places, especially as the feeling moves down his body and shoulders, the anchor is a sliding anchor that matches the increase of intensity of the state and will evoke that segment of the state in an increasing manner.
4. He has the subject repeat the sequence fast several times. As he goes through the places, he fires off the anchors.
5. He tells the subject to loop the state (this increases its intensity) while he continues to fire off the anchors. He goes faster and faster and suggests that each loop builds on the last and with each loop the intensity doubles. Watch the fast part of the movie and watch how he touches the guy. Each time he is firing off the anchors and giving suggestions about the increasing intensity of the state.
6. At the same time he begins to anchor the whole thing to the word that he has written on the pad so that the word becomes an anchor for the increasing state as a whole. “Look at this word and later when you see this word it will bring the whole thing up again...
7. Once the state is stable and fully anchored to the word,all he has to do is show him the word and it evokes the state.
I asked a friend of mine, Dr. Richard Gray, Ph.D, on how Derren did this particular trick. Dr. Gray has a Ph.D in psychology and is a certified master practitioner of NLP with years of study and experience behind him. There are his words, used without permission and hopefully he wont be angry with me for sharing:
1. Establish rapport and get him to do something. "Bring that chair over here". This establishes a yes set, a cooperative frame.
2. Have the subject remember the state and differentiate the state from others: you’re a cider man not a beer man. Remember the state and disassemble it into sequences of feelings. Note how he questions him about sequences of experience. First place he was aware of the experience---in the mouth, then back of throat, and what was felt there. Then down to the sternum and what was felt there. To the stomach, etc. First, I think he touches the leg as an anchor for each step.
3. As he repeats the steps, each time the subject names a place and a specific felt memory of that specific sensation, he touches him there with a very specific kind of touch, an anchor. In some places, especially as the feeling moves down his body and shoulders, the anchor is a sliding anchor that matches the increase of intensity of the state and will evoke that segment of the state in an increasing manner.
4. He has the subject repeat the sequence fast several times. As he goes through the places, he fires off the anchors.
5. He tells the subject to loop the state (this increases its intensity) while he continues to fire off the anchors. He goes faster and faster and suggests that each loop builds on the last and with each loop the intensity doubles. Watch the fast part of the movie and watch how he touches the guy. Each time he is firing off the anchors and giving suggestions about the increasing intensity of the state.
6. At the same time he begins to anchor the whole thing to the word that he has written on the pad so that the word becomes an anchor for the increasing state as a whole. “Look at this word and later when you see this word it will bring the whole thing up again...
7. Once the state is stable and fully anchored to the word,all he has to do is show him the word and it evokes the state.
5 comments:
Very useful subject of study, but there could be a downside to it:
http://www.skilluminati.com/research/entry/the_bandler_method_getting_away_with_murder_nlp_style/
NLP is a set of tools. You wouldn't say there a down side to having a hammer, would you?
Besides, that's just one person. He might have confounded NLP, but his actions don't mean that every single person that takes up NLP will become an alcoholic cocaine snorting murderer. As the article said, he probably invented NLP to help him deal with his 'inner demons.'
well the downside to having a hammer is (if you are a murderer) the fact that it could bash your brains in...
I'm all for NLP, just like I'm pro-2nd Ammendment (pro-guns), but I'm just saying with every good comes another evil.
i think derren brown already proved that...
that's true
but i would like feeling drunk without getting drunk. what's the harm in that?
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