THE PROBLEM OF MIND-READING AND ITS CURE

The primary linguistic distinction that the founders of NLP discovered from Virginia Satir was Mind- Reading. With her emphasis on communication as “the greatest single factor affecting a person’s health and relationship to others” (Peoplemaking, p. 59), her book reads like a full assault on the danger and disrespect of mind-reading. She repeatedly emphasized the unique thinking and feeling of each person, each with his and her own maps of the world, and that we do not know what the other person is thinking, feeling, intending, etc.