Lankton occupies the honest middle ground: deep in the Erickson lineage that NLP borrowed from, but working within proper psychotherapeutic practice. His structured teaching of indirect suggestion and metaphor remains among the clearest bridges between the clinical tradition and NLP's extracted patterns.
Stephen Lankton
Stephen Lankton — American therapist trained personally by Milton Erickson, whose teaching and writing (Practical Magic, Tales of Enchantment) carried the utilisation tradition forward with clinical grounding.
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ShriViral Manek, Institute of NLP India · reviewed 30 Sept 2026