1. pacing, 1, 2
    1. future see future-pacing
  2. pain, 1, 2
    1. cardiac, 1, 2
    2. chronic, 1
    3. glyph and, 1, 2, 3, 4
    4. managing, 1
    5. myofascial/fibromyalgic, 1, 2
    6. subjective experiences, 1, 2
  3. paradoxical binds, 1
  4. paradoxical sleep exercise, 1
  5. parasympathetic nervous system, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
    1. arousal, 1
    2. see also autonomic nervous system
  6. parietal lobe/cortex, 1, 2
  7. Parkes, Colin Murray, 1
  8. Pascual-Leone, Alvaro, 1
  9. past (in time), 1
    1. changing responses to experiences in, 1
    2. linguistic observations concerning, 1, 2
    3. placing cause of problem in, 1, 2
    4. time lines, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
  10. pathography, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
  11. pathology and anchors, 1
  12. patient(s)
    1. adherence, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
    2. keeping them on track, 1, 2, 3, 4
    3. looking into their eyes, 1
    4. opinions, 1, 2, 3
    5. perspectives on algorithm for change, 1
    6. resources, 1
    7. satisfaction, 1, 2, 3
    8. ‘shopping list’, 1
    9. stick, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
    10. temporal language, 1
    11. touching, 1, 2
  13. patient-generated metaphor, 1
    1. somatic language, 1
  14. patient-centered approaches, 1, 2
  15. patient–doctor relationship, 1
    1. differing agendas, 1
    2. quality, 1
    3. resistance in response to treatment, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
    4. see also compassion fatigue; consultation; empathy
  16. patterns
    1. alternative reality, 1
    2. ‘and…but’, 1, 2
    3. breathing, 1, 2
    4. future-pacing, 1
    1. language/linguistic, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
    2. positive influence, 1
    3. swish see swishing and swish patterns see also repatterning
  18. Pavlov, Ivan, 1
  19. peer acceptance, 1
  20. Pennebaker, James W., 1, 2, 3, 4
  21. perception, 1
    1. of emotions of others, 1
    2. of events, 1
    3. organs of, 1, 2
    4. response guided by, 1
    5. of time, 1
  22. performance anxiety, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
  23. personality disorder, 1
    1. multiple, 1
  24. persuasion see influence and persuasion
  25. Pert, Candice, 1, 2, 3
  26. pharmaceutical industry (Big Pharma), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
  27. phobias, 1, 2
    1. fast cure, 1, 2
    2. social, 1
  28. physical abuse, childhood, 1
  29. physical exercise see exercise physicians see practitioners
  30. Pinker, Stephen, 1
  31. placebo, 1
  32. placebo effect/response, 1, 2, 3
    1. SSRIs, 1
  33. planning outcomes, 1
    1. obstacles, 1
    2. trouble-shooting, 1
  34. Porges, Stephen, 1
  35. positive anchors, 1
  36. positive-emotion words, 1, 2
  37. positive expectancy, 1
  38. positive influence patterns, 1
  39. positive intention, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13
  40. post-consultation stress disorder, 1
  41. post-traumatic stress disorder, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
  42. posture, 1
  43. practitioners (health professionals/physicians/doctors/clinicians) bias see bias consultation see consultation
    1. as meta-anchor, 1
    2. ‘open’ practitioner, 1
    3. relations between patient and see patient–doctor relationship stress, 1
    4. temporal language, 1
    5. time, 1
    6. trance and role of, 1
  44. predator threat, 1, 2, 3, 4
  45. pre-diabetes, 1
  46. predicates, 1
    1. sensory, 1, 2, 3, 4
  47. predictability (of events), 1
  48. preframing, 1, 2, 3
  49. prefrontal area/cortex, 1, 2, 3
  50. premature closure (in diagnosis), 1
  51. premature cognitive closure, 1, 2
  52. premature outcome, 1
  53. prescribing of drugs resistance to change with psychotropic drugs in, 1
    1. writing prescriptions, 1
  54. pressure dissuading us from freeing up our thinking and reasoning, 1
  55. presupposition, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13
    1. insomnia treatment, 1
  56. Prigogine, Ilya, 1, 2, 3, 4
  57. primacy, 1, 2
  58. primary process thinking, 1, 2
  59. priming, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
    1. negative, 1, 2
    2. semantic see semantic priming seven classes, 1
  60. problem-solving approach, 1, 2, 3
  61. problem state (PS), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
    1. in follow-up visit, questions, 1
    2. in medical NLP swish pattern, 1
    3. transition to desired state from see transition
  62. process, 1
    1. annotation in analysis of subjects internal processes, 1
    2. change, 1
    3. of eliciting outcomes, 1, 2
    4. experience as, 1, 2, 3, 4
    5. health as, 1
    6. hemispheric processing differences, 1
    7. listening and watching for, 1
    8. restoration to nominalizations, 1
  63. prompting questions, 1
  64. protective responses to threat, 1, 2, 3, 4
    1. anxiety and, 1
    2. see also fight-or-flight response
  65. psychiatric disorders see mental disorders
  66. psychological modulators, 1, 2
  68. psychological trauma see traumatic events
  69. psycho-neuroimmunology (PNI), 1, 2
  70. psychosomatic disorders see functional/somatoform/psychosomatic disorders
  71. psychosomatic network, 1, 2
  72. psychotic episodes/incidents, 1, 2, 3, 4
  73. psychotropic drugs, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
    1. resistance to change in prescribing of, 1
  74. purpose, 1
    1. chunking for, 1, 2
    2. problems and symptoms, 1, 2
    3. stories and, 1
    4. talking with, 1