Research Notebooks 1: Western Vision: Comparing Triadic Model

A short tutorial on the relationship between triadic therapy and NLP


This brief tutorial is intended to lead the student to identify the differences in approach between the NLP model and the Quantum Psychology model.

NLP MODEL


An external stimulus passes through a series of filters and creates an internal representation that in turn is linked to an emotional state - from these derives a behavior


Strategies

Behaviors develop into strategies.

People use specific sequences of mental processing to make choices based on their internal representations.

QUANTUM MODEL


Triadic therapy relies on the most recent research in neurology and identifies three parts of the human mind that operate simultaneously. For triadic therapy, the NLP model is incomplete in that it essentially describes what happens exclusively at the level of the cortex. Deriving from studies on hypnotic techniques, the triadic model also examines other levels of the mind:

1: The neocortex (cerebral cortex) or cortex

reacts to logical or fantasy stimuli

2: the mammalian brain

reacts to emotional stimuli

3: the reptilian brain

reacts to basic stimuli

An external stimulus is perceived by the triadic mind: each level of the mind has a set of possible stimulus recognition matrices.

The cortex connects it to concepts, the mammalian mind to an emotional value, the reptilian brain to basic needs.

Each matrix is linked to a precise mechanism of activation of a specific action.

Psychological problems arise from different types of matrixes activated simultaneously. The person is then in a state of doubt and suffering.

The solution is then to give priority to one mind rather than another.

Each person is then structured in a certain particular way (metastructure) that allows him to choose.

A metastructure is a mechanism of priority between minds.


Metastructures and behavior

If we change the metastructure we change the choice.

But some people find metastructures unsuitable for certain purposes. For example, they place the mammalian brain in third position when they actually have to deal with contact work with others.