Talk:List of psychotherapies

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What is the point of this list, since some of them are legitimate and some oare not? Anyone could add their owon idiocyncratic therapy to this list. Mattisse(talk) 01:48, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

I think there is a need for the list. If therapies are not legitimate or of wide enough interest to be of use in Wikipedia then the list or the articles it links to can be edited. --Vince 08:38, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

"Illegitimate" therapies should also be listed since this is an encyclopaedia of all knowledge and experience. The individual articles would note if they are controversial. Wikipedia already has fairly clear rules on what is Not notable. Lumos3 10:58, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

This is a difficult problem as some that are listed here are a bit of stretch. However, it is important to note that several therapies that haven't been well researched until recently are beginning to show results as formal research is performed. For now, probably best to leave them all in there. User:Zutano99 —Preceding comment was added at 02:57, August 4, 2007

I absolutely agree. The term "legitimate" in this context is next to useless, as this is a field which in its entirety borders on the current medical-scientific paradigm. Who could be the objective certifying body for a field such as this? Several modalities are constantly in development integrating knowledge and perspectives from diverging disciplines as well as clinical experience. The best we can do is to try and describe each, their path of development, and of course existing critisism where such is available. __meco 07:21, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Radical changes

User:Bss5548 are making a lot of radical changes to the list. I'd like to see some explanation on these edits. __meco 21:59, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

I have restored the deletions . Many had been replaced by external links . I have made these Red Wikipedia links so that they can be identified as possible candiodates for articles. Lumos3 22:30, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

To User:Bss5548 Please dont put external links within the article. If there is missing content on Wikipedia leave a red link and then populate the article it points to with a stub which might contain that link as a reference or in its External links section. See Wikipedia:External links#Important points to remember Thanks . Lumos3 07:50, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] New additions

I corrected the link to Child psychotherapy as there is such an article although it could be described as 'work in progress'. There is also a new article called attachment-based psychotherapy. Is it OK to add unvalidated, discredited and/or non-mainstream therapies if there are articles on them? Fainites ^barley 21:44, 5 November 2007 (UTC)