Monday 4 April 2011

Bandler on Farrelly

This extract is from an interview I did with Richard Bandler a few years ago when I asked him about Frank Farrelly.

"You know, Farrelly had to be one of the most courageous people on the face of the earth to do the wackiest things he did. It was obvious that he made sure that he made people do new behaviours while they were enjoying it. That meant when they did them again, they weren’t frightening; they were fun. If they’d thought about having their problem again, they would laugh. He was probably the first person to really do neuro-hypnotic repatterning…to tell you the truth. Um. He didn’t think about it in the formal sense that I did. To tell you the truth, when Frank Farrelly described to me his theory, he was as wacky as Virginia Satir and as wacky as all the rest of them. What he did was really great. What I respect about Frank is that he stuck to his guns. No matter how much they told him therapy should be boring or how much they told him he was over the edge, what he noticed is he made people better. "

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