Mainstream psychology as it stood in the 1970s

July 2018

UK business consultant Jeremy Marchant, a student of Psychology of Vision and proponent of hypnosis, has an interesting observation found on a webpage for his company, Emotional Intelligence at Work.

In the section entitled Stages of personal development—1 The basics, Mr. Marchant displays a modified version of the POV Triangle and concludes the chapter with:

About this model

emotional intelligence at work uses a model developed by Chuck Spezzano of Psychology of Vision. Its core can be thought of as a summary of mainstream psychology as it stood in the 1970s. It has been substantially simplified for business use (by PoV) and slightly amended by us to reflect current terminology.

The terms dependence, independence and interdependence can be found in a number of writers (for example, Stephen Covey). The fact that these terms are used similarly by these authors demonstrates a common source, rather than plagiarism. The various writers’ efforts are, of course, interpretations of the source material.

http://www.emotionalintelligenceatwork.com/resources/stages-personal-development-basics/

Of course some authors like Louise Hay, Bob Trask, Susan Campbell, Amma and Bhagavan, and many others might take issue with Spezzano not being a plagiarist. The spiritual teacher Rasha actually did call out some of the POV Canada trainers for stealing her work.

Although the Spezzanos like to use the phrase "cutting edge" in describing their work, it is quite obvious from browsing through the documents in this blog that little has changed in their for-profit strategy since POV began. Mr. Marchant's reference to the 1970s seems appropriate.

And, needless to say, the Spezzanos are NOT licensed, recognized, or APA-accredited professionals in the field of psychology.

Mr. Marchant once had a whole webpage devoted to Chuck Spezzano, but it is now gone. In it he provided another intriguing description of the methods behind POV:

A primary source of emotional intelligence at work‘s EI material is based on Psychology of Vision, as developed by Chuck Spezzano.  This takes a largely mainstream post-Freudian approach [see, for example, Eric Berne, A layman’s guide to psychiatry and psychoanalysis] and elaborates it with extensive borrowings from other sources of which Carl Jung, NLP and transactional analysis are the most obvious.  Chuck’s genius is to keep the complexity but hide it from the client (unless the client is interested in it) so as to provide a powerful transformational approach.

http://psychologyofvision.blogspot.com/2017/08/emotional-intelligence-at-work-and.html