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Abstract

In the article the notion of a persons model of the world, as it more or less explicitly is formulated inside different traditions of psychotherapy, is discussed. Jerome Frank's concept of »the assumptive world« exemplify this notion. Bandler & Grinder's use of the concept of a persons model of the world is then delineated, and how this concept is used in understanding psychotherapy is illustrated. It is shown how Bandler & Grinder's concept implies a distorted view of the person and of the process of psychotherapy. Their concept is at best a model of human capacities, and as such it is at odds with contemporary understanding of
both human perception and activity. Through abstracting away both history and concrete events from their conceptual field, their model fails to conceptualize the central issues in psychotherapy.