Books

Healing Depressions challenges the traditional view of depression as a brain disease and presents a brief psychotherapy approach as a viable alternative. Most cases of depression have psychological roots, and clients often understand what is causing their distress. When they do not, there are effective ways to uncover the underlying issues. This book provides illustrated descriptions of psychotherapeutic methods to deal with depressions based on Mental Space Psychology. To purchase, click the language button below:

Four chapters about research using a selection of standard algorithms of therapeutic interventions applied to hundreds of cases. Here, the interventions that tend to have predictable outcomes are regarded as clinical experiments. What do these repeated standard interventions reveal about the workings of the mind? 256 pages in a large format. 340 pages in a smaller format on Amazon from 2026. To purchase, click the language button below:

An alternative way to look at psychological disorders and health. When all psychological phenomena are happening in mental space, this must also hold for psychological issues of all sorts. This will give a new direction to the psychotherapy of the future. To purchase, click the language button below:

This is a recent e-book version of the handouts used in the classical 5-day Social Panorama Consultant training that started in 2002. It contains all techniques and theories that belong to what is called: The Social Panorama Toolkit.

This book is written for coaches that work in a business environment and want to use mental space informed methods that are simple in structure. Ekkehart and Brigitte have a long practical experience with teaching and using MSP in Germany. To purchase click the language:

Being a social psychologist, Lucas Derks became fascinated by the question: How are relationships created in the mind? Slowly the answer came over a long time of clinical experimentation: Relationships are created by putting social images on fixed locations in mental space. This book shows how to apply this finding in therapy and coaching. Over the last 20 years the Social Panorama theory found only support. To purchase, click the language:

This 700-page compendium of Neuro-linguistic Programming contains the first ever written chapter (19) on the social panorama. A bestseller in its kind in the Netherlands (50000 copies sold), it was also translated into Russian. To purchase click the language:

Originally modelled from David Grove, James Lawley and Marian Way deliver a detailed step by step guide to how to apply this fundamental spatial approach to psychotherapy and problem solving. This is one of the pillars of the clinical application of mental space psychology. To purchase, click the language:

The first-ever book on the social panorama was an underground comic book written in 1998. The vertical version is from 2010. It is a story about a farmer who discovers the social panorama and successfully applies it to his own complex social life. To purchase, click the language:

Under the title: Creativiteits Management (The management of creativity, 1986), this book covers the coaching of professional creative workers. The methods are based on NLP. The strategy is, to first classify the blockage that prevent the creative output in one of 7 categories (the Kreta Model/Crete Model). Next to address these with the help of specialized coaching tools. The book was used as a teaching manual in art education. The book was reprinted with the help of René Koppelaar in 2015. To purchase click the language:

Melting Ice is an adventure novel set 18,000 years ago, focusing on the live changing effects of the social panorama. Want to order?

The Dissertation of a Psycho-farmer explores the relationship between NLP and academic psychology, seen through the eyes of a farmer. To order, click here.

The Spiritual Will of a Psycho-farmer explores speculative science and the role of spirituality within a pragmatic psychological development like NLP. To order, click here.