NLP "messing someone up?"

[Samster]

I read the following @ http://www.faqs.org/faqs/self-impr-faq/part2/.

"In 1984 I took an introductory workshop and discovered, much to my
surprise, that it worked well. After messing someone up to the point
where he almost needed hospitalization, I decided to be trained in it
fully, so as not to repeat the mistake.

I find it works scarily well. So well that even someone with poor
training in it can do a lot of damage. There was no quality control
in the field, and a lot of people go around teaching NLP who know
very little about it. Performing NLP techniques is a skill.
Probably only one in ten NLP Practitioners are in the top 10% of NLP
skill level, and maybe even fewer than that(*)."

I'm curious how can NLP do more harm than good. I'm guessing it's rare, but when harm does occur, what would the common type of harm be?

[Don]

On that page it is attributed to someone named stever@mit.edu. Why don't you ask him? He's making the claim.

[skip]

"Probably only one in ten NLP Practitioners are in the top 10% of NLP
skill level, and maybe even fewer than that(*).""


Did you just say, "Probably only 10% are in the top 10%?"

In that case, you are probably correct.

There was/is a genre called 'The Darkside Patterns", that were supposedly designed to mess you up.

I never lent them much credence.

[Henrik]

"Probably only one in ten NLP Practitioners are in the top 10% of NLP
skill level, and maybe even fewer than that(*).""


Maybe they are measured by the pounds of weight?

[tdiamond]

people manage to mess people up without any fancy techniques... and especially when they arent skilled in anything..