Where most NLP books project confidence about the future, this one maps the ancestry — and in doing so explains both the field's genuine insights and its inherited confusions. For readers who want to understand NLP rather than merely operate it.
The Roots of NLP
L. Michael Hall, 1988 — an excavation of NLP's intellectual sources: Korzybski, Bateson, transformational grammar, cybernetics.
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ShriViral Manek, Institute of NLP India · reviewed 30 Sept 2026