Alternative medicine<unk>  has been promoted with claims it can be used to treat a variety of diseases including Parkinson's disease, HIV/AIDS and cancer. Such claims have no supporting medical evidence. People who use<unk>  as a form of treatment risk serious adverse health consequences as it can delay the provision of effective medical care. Psychotherapeutic Early books about<unk>  had a psychotherapeutic focus given that the early models were psychotherapists. As an approach to psychotherapy,<unk>  shares similar core assumptions and foundations in common with some contemporary brief and systemic practices, such as solution focused brief therapy.<unk>  has also been acknowledged as having influenced these practices with its reframing techniques which seeks to achieve behavior change by shifting its context or meaning, for example, by finding the positive connotation of a thought or behavior. The two main therapeutic uses of<unk>  are, firstly, as an adjunct by therapists practicing in other therapeutic disciplines and, secondly, as a specific therapy called<unk><unk>  Psychotherapy. According to Stollznow, "Bandler and Grinder's infamous Frogs into Princes and their other books boast that<unk>  is a cure-all that treats a broad range of physical and mental conditions and learning difficulties, including epilepsy, myopia and dyslexia. With its promises to cure schizophrenia, depression and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, and its dismissal of psychiatric illnesses as psychosomatic,<unk>  shares similarities with Scientology and the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR)." A systematic review of experimental studies by Sturt et al (2012) concluded that "there is little evidence that<unk>  interventions improve health-related outcomes." In his review of<unk> , Stephen Briers writes, "NLP is not really a cohesive therapy but a ragbag of different techniques without a particularly clear theoretical basis...and its evidence base is virtually non-existent." Eisner writes, "NLP appears to be a superficial and gimmicky approach to dealing with mental health problems. Unfortunately,<unk>  appears to be the first in a long line of mass marketing seminars that purport to virtually cure any mental disorder...it appears that<unk>  has no empirical or scientific support as to the underlying tenets of its theory or clinical effectiveness. What remains is a mass-marketed serving of psychopablum." André Muller Weitzenhoffer—a friend and peer of Milton Erickson—wrote, "Has<unk>  really abstracted and explicated the essence of successful therapy and provided everyone with the means to be another Whittaker, Virginia Satir, or Erickson?...NLP's failure to do this is evident because today there is no multitude of their equals, not even another Whittaker, Virginia Satir, or Erickson. Ten years should have been sufficient time for this to happen. In this light, I cannot take<unk>  seriously...NLP's contributions to our understanding and use of Ericksonian techniques are equally dubious. Patterns I and II are poorly written works that were an overambitious, pretentious effort to reduce hypnotism to a magic of words." Clinical psychologist Stephen Briers questions the value of the<unk>  maxim—a presupposition in<unk>  jargon—"there is no failure, only feedback". Briers argues that the denial of the existence of failure diminishes its instructive value. He offers Walt Disney, Isaac Newton and J.K. Rowling as three examples of unambiguous acknowledged personal failure that served as an impetus to great success. According to Briers, it was "the crash-and-burn type of failure, not the sanitised<unk>  Failure Lite, i.e. the failure-that-isn't really-failure sort of failure" that propelled these individuals to success. Briers contends that adherence to the maxim leads to self-deprecation. According to Briers, personal endeavour is a product of invested values and aspirations and the dismissal of personally significant failure as mere feedback effectively denigrates what one values. Briers writes, "Sometimes we need to accept and mourn the death of our dreams, not just casually dismiss them as inconsequential." Briers also contends that the<unk>  maxim is narcissistic, self-centered and divorced from notions of moral responsibility. Other uses Although the original core techniques of<unk>  were therapeutic in orientation their generic nature enabled them to be applied to other fields. These applications include persuasion, sales, negotiation, management training, sports, teaching, coaching, team building, public speaking, and in the process of hiring employees.
Neuro-linguistic programming
Video game rehabilitation
Social cognition and interaction training
Aural rehabilitation
Parent management training
Autism therapies
Music therapy
Dance therapy