The Structure of Personality

The Structure of Personality

Modeling “Personality” Using NLP and Neuro-Semantics

L. Michael Hall, Ph.D., Bob Bodenhamer, D.Min.,
Dr. Richard Bolstad & Margot Hamblett

In this book you will discover that there is no such “thing” as “Personality.” The key word is “thing.” “Personality” is not a thing, but a process. It’s a way of using one’s personal powers of thought, emotion, memory, imagination, speech and behavior. “Personality” is what we DO rather than what we ARE.

Starting from this basic NLP presupposition, the authors have completely denominalized the idea of “personality” so as to create a much more open and responsive model for handling what the medical and psychological communities have nominalized, “Personality Problems.” Instead of speaking about “Personality Disorders,” they speak about personality “disordering.” By returning the language to verbs, the authors then show how that we have three meta-domains as avenues into understanding and transforming “personality.”

These are the three meta-domains of NLP: the Meta-Model, Meta-Programs, and Meta-States. Looking at “personality” with these models enables us to recognize “personality” structures and problems using language (Meta-Model), perceptual filters (Meta-Programs) and states, meta-states, and logical levels (Meta-States). The book presents these three domains and shows the careful reader how to use them to reorder any “personality” disordering.

THE STRUCTURE OF PERSONALITY explores how we actively pattern experience. Using the basic NLP model, the book leads the reader through how we build up a cognitive-emotional behavioral system of responses using internal representations. It examines specific contexts and environments in which personality patterning occurs and the higher levels (layering) of the mind which solidifies our sense of person with beliefs and values.

THE STRUCTURE OF PERSONALITY enables the psychotherapist, hypnotherapist, coach, or informed reader to recognize the structure of ordering personality and so gives valuable insights into re-ordering personality. In Structure of Personality, the reader will find NLP strategies, the RESOLVE model, Meta-States, the Personal Strengths Model, SCORE, and multiple NLP and Neuro-Semantic patterns for transforming personality into something of beauty and power.

THE STRUCTURE OF PERSONALITY targets 14 of the so-called “Personality Disorders” of the DSM-IV and shows how that NLP and NS do not just handle simple problems, but those considered the most severe and unyielding. From schizophrenia to paranoia and addiction, to manic-depressive, THE STRUCTURE OF PERSONALITY provides meta-principles and step-by-step processes along with case studies for the Transformation of personality. Here the magic of NLP shines.

Four world-class NLP Master Trainers have combined to create this work. Begin by L. Michael Hall, Ph.D. as an application of NLP for “personality,” Dr. Bodenhamer filled out much of the work from his pastoral counseling and NLP therapy work. To this Dr. Bolstad and his partner, Margot Hamblett added a psychiatric nursing perceptive. You may not agree with everything in this book, but you will think… and in thinking, you will become more skilled in understanding and working with some of the most challenging problems in human experience.

Reviews:

“A bold and courageous step with exciting possibilities. The authors have dismantled the diagnostic nomenclature offering new perspectives for treatment while postulating that personality is not static; not a thing, but an ongoing, evolving process and, if dysfunctional, can be restructured. The book should prove to be a milestone in our pursuit for sanity.”

Rie Anderson, M.A., LMHC, NBCDCH
Clinical Pshyhotherapist

“The Structure of Personality” is a major step in creating a cognitive map using Neuro-Semantics and Neuro-Linguistic Programming to understand the relationship between a person’s thinking and his or her personality development.”

Jim Walsh, M.A.
Licensed Mental Health Counselor
Certified School Psychologist
Certified Neuro-Semantics and Neuro-Linguistic Trainer

Book Review of The Structure of Personality by Te Ruru, B.A., M.Ed., Cert.Couns.

Book Review of The Structure of Personality by John Burton, Ed.D.

Table of Contents

Foreword	iii
Preface₁	ix
Preface₂	xv

Part One – NLP and NS Models for Understanding the Structure of Personality	1

Chapter 1 “Personality” and the Meta-Model”	3
Chapter 2 The Meta-States Model and “Personality”	17
Chapter 3 The Strategies Model and “Personality”	51
Chapter 4 Meta-States, Design Human Engineering and “Personality”	67
Chapter 5 The RESOLVE Model and “Personality”	91
Chapter 6 “Personality” as a Meta-Level Phenomena	111
Chapter 7 The Personal Strengths Model and “Personality”	127
Chapter 8 Modeling and the Structure of Pathology	141
Chapter 9 Modeling Pathology	153
Chapter 10 When Things go Wrong	169
Chapter 11 Re-discovering the Healthy “Personality”	183
Chapter 12 NLP and NS Patterns for Transforming “Personality”	210

Part Two — Specific “Personality” Disordering	249

Chapter 13 Double-Binding and Schizophrenia	251
Chapter 14 Disordering “Personality” Through Paranoia	299
Chapter 15 Disordering “Personality” Through Anti-Social Frames	309
Chapter 16 Disordering “Personality” Through Depressing	321
Chapter 17 Borderline Disordering of “Personality”	343
Chapter 18 Disordering “Personality” Through Histrionic Disordering	373
Chapter 19 Disordering “Personality” Through Narcissism	381
Chapter 20 Disordering “Personality” Through Avoidance	389
Chapter 21 Disordering “Personality” Through Dependence	399
Chapter 22 Obsessive-Compulsive Disordering	405
Chapter 23 Disordering “Personality” Through Becoming Addictive	415
Chapter 24 Disordering “Personality” Through Anxiety-ing	435
Chapter 25 You and Your “Personality”	453

NLP and Neuro-Semantic Resources and Patterns	455
Bibliography	457

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