Thanks Wolfgang for such a nice and detailed answer. I read a book " A concise introduction to Logic' 8th edition by Patrick J. Hurley at the end of the 9th Chapter of the book,writer takes all such practices as pseudoscience and author thinks that NLP has not a potential to be a true science.
Neurolinguistic programming ( NLP) is a collection of ideas from different areas
( operant conditioning behaviorism , psychoanalysis , various psychologies , cognitive science , etc. ) composing an incoherent mixture . Practitioners say deal with " understanding of subjective experiences " human ( and therefore can even be considered as being on the same level as weaker psychologies ) .
If NLP had important life itself, would be accepted in serious scientific vehicles that deal with cognition . His theory is based on references cited only within their own tables without basing on the large amount of rigorous scientific material that is available in the Cognitive Science traditional, on behaviorism , in Cognitive Neuroscience , etc. .
The fundamental ideas of NLP treat the brain as comparable to the computer , something that made sense in the 70s but today is already considered by many as the greatest mistake of computer's phase
Neuro-linguistic programming is generally considered as pseudoscience, and it's tough for NLP practitioners in the academia. On the more prestigious end you will find Cognitive Linguistics which is very similar to neuro-linguistic programming. CL and NLP are not scientifically grounded, but rather based on kind of guru teachings. However, CL is accredited as proper science.
If you ever wondered about the mysteries of the mind, and couldn't find what you were looking for in standard research, then this is your stuff. Many start the voyage to Cognitive Linguistics from Lakoff & Johnson's Metaphors We Live By which is rated as no. 15 in best NLP books by UpJourney: https://upjourney.com/best-nlp-books