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 Being a young technology, yet drawing on hundreds of years of knowledge and wisdom, NLP was created by Richard Bandler and John Grinder in the early 1970’s and made popular more recently by the likes of Anthony Robbins (Book: 'Unleash The Giant Within') and Paul McKenna (UK TV series: 'I Can Change Your Life').
Bandler (a psychology student) and Grinder (an assistant professor of linguistics) at the University of California, Santa Cruz, studied three well known therapists Virginia Satir (a very effective family therapist), Fritz Pearls (creator of Gestalt Therapy), and Milton H. Erickson, M.D. (the “Godfather” of Modern Hypnosis).
Bandler and Grinder were also very heavily influenced by the British anthropologist Gregory Bateson, who was quoted by one of his students as saying "Human beings create the world we perceive... because we select and edit the reality we see to conform to our beliefs about what sort of world we live in."
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 This sort of thinking along with their research on Perls, Satir and Erickson formed the basis of NLP and brought Bandler and Grinder to publish a number of books on their findings.
The first is titled The Structure of Magic Vol. I in 1975 in which they published their findings on Perls and Satir. This was to be followed by Patterns of the Hypnotic Techniques of Milton H. Erickson, M.D. Vol I (1975) and Vol. II in 1977.
In 1976 Bandler and Grinder published The Structure of Magic Vol II, and Changing With Families - A Book About Further Education For Being Human, with Verginia Satir.
In 1979 Bandler and Grinder along with Steve and Connirae Andreas (Editors)started publishing transcriptions of live seminars that Bandler and Grinder gave. The first book was titled Frogs Into Princes (1979), then Trans-Formations (1981) and Reframing (1982). These books are probably some of the more popular books on NLP.
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Bandler and Grinder described NLP as a human behaviour technology that offered a fast and painless way to change.
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