The structure of magic by Grinder John;Bandler Richard & Bandler Richard

Author:Grinder, John;Bandler, Richard & Bandler, Richard
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Palo Alto, Ca. : Science and Behavior Books
Published: 1976-10-25T16:00:00+00:00

PARTIII

Fuzzy Functions

We would like to focus your attention in this section on what we consider to be one of the most important aspects of the Meta-model presented in Magic I: semantic well-formedness. Two major forms that semantic well-formedness has as expressed in Magic /are:

Cause-effect

George forced Mary to weigh forty pounds.

You make me angry.

She makes me feel depressed. jyiinH-rea^iinj

/ know what you 're thinking.

She doesn 't like me.

Everyone hates me.

He thinks I'm ugly.

To refresh your memory, we will briefly review these forms. [^Cause-Effect semantic ill-formedness is the case in which the referential index of responsibility is placed outside the speaker .

You make me angry.

The speaker, X, has no choice about being angry because Y forced him to be. Thus, a statement such as:

Y Causative verb X feel some emotion

is said to be semantically ill-formed. Sentences of this type, in fact, identify situations wherein one person does some act and a second person responds by feeling a certain way. The point here is that, although the two events occur one after another, there is no necessary connection between the act of the first person and the response of the otherT^Therefore^sentences of this type identify a model in which the client assigns responsibility for his emotions to people or forces outside his controTjTJ ie act itself does not cause the ernQtioji; rather, the emotion_[s_a res^ons^^enej^tejcLfrom a model in which the client takes no responsibility fo r experience s, wKicr) ne co uld conTroT

^The therapist's task at this point is to challenge the model in some way which will assist the client in taking responsibility for his responses!}

We intend in the following pages to more thoroughly explore this phenomenon by examining the experiences which, typically, are the basis for this form of representation.

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