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Find out why psychiatrists have such a low success rate.

Get outta mah face!

Get offa mah case!

 

All you ever wanted to know about

“How the words we choose to use

help us lose friends and antagonize people”

Meet Don McCabe the first educator to formulate the obvious, common sense principle and develop a program to teach it. 

In academic parlance:

Emotional states trigger specific and predictable speech patterns that are developed over time—these speech patterns in turn trigger the specific emotional or mental states associated with them.

Translation:

The way you feel helps make you say what you say and the way you say it.  What you say and the way you say it helps determine the way you feel.  The way you feel affects your body position and body language which also affects you and the person you’re talking to.

  1. Question: Has any American man ever hit a woman
    without first using the word “bitch!”?
  2. Question:  Has talking about traumatic episodes in childhood
    ever really helped anyone except the psychiatrist
    and his bank account?
  3. Question:  How can psychologists and social workers
    ever help with anger management
    if they don’t first help their clients change their automatic
    speech patterns that make them and the person they’re talking to angry? 
  4. The Grammar of Patterns of Speech: The Big 10:  Attention grabbers, Names, Demands, Emphatics, Negatives, Floor Holders, Listening/not listening, Defend by attacking, Name Calling, That’s all folks.

Who is Don McCabe? He is the Research Director of the non-profit AVKO Educational Research Foundation founded in 1974, Author of over 20 books in the area of teaching spelling, reading, and handwriting, including The Patterns of English Spelling, the only source book (10 volumes!) ever written in which a teacher, writer, or researcher can find all the words in English (American or British) that share the same phonic patterns such as the ci = /sh/ as in social, crucial, and suspicion.  It was a small step from there to the patterns of speech that affect behavior.  A huge leap will be necessary for the psychiatric community to follow.

 For more info contact Don McCabe at the AVKO Educational Research Foundation. Phone Toll Free 1-866-AVKO-612