Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Primal therapy

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was keep. alphaChimp^(talk) 05:57, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Primal therapy

I see no real assertion of notability here. While it's not itself original research, it is report of research of little confirmed validity and importance. Delete Nlu (talk) 02:40, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

• Keep. This is a well-known concept in psychotherapy and is even known to pop culture thanks to musicians such as John Lennon and Tears for Fears. Whether it is currently considered a valid therapy among psychologists is a matter to be discussed in the article itself, rather than a reason to delete it. --Metropolitan90 03:34, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. While possibly being completely out now, this was a big fad back in the 1970s. A Google Books search gets 1420 hits. Tupsharru 03:41, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
  • P.S.: WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!! WOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAA! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!! Tupsharru 16:16, 4 September 2006 (UTC) (Restoring my primal scream, which was deleted by Nlu. Possibly a silly joke, but not vandalism, and I see no reason to tolerate it being "reverted" as if it were. Tupsharru 21:43, 4 September 2006 (UTC))
    • Comment That's a great line, and since it's on GDFL I'll probably use it. It seems appropriate for many other AfD discussions I've been involved in :-) Dlyons493 Talk 21:51, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
• Keep was a big fad once Dlyons493 Talk 04:35, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
• Keep— You youngsters might not have heard of it, but Primal therapy was in college textbooks when I was a pup. Always suspected Primal therapy was to psychotherapy as chiropractics is to medicine. But we do have article on chiropractic health care. Williamborg (Bill) 05:10, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. On the issue raised in the intro to this article about lack of independant peer-reviewed outcome studies, I recently emailed Arthur Janov for any web links or biographical references he could give me. He granted me a telephone interview a couple of days ago in which he assured me that his upcoming book "Primal Healing..." will contain such references and the book is due for release shortly (4 to 6 weeks in the USA, I believe, and late in the year in other English speaking countries). --GrahameKing 11:29, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. SweetP112 14:25, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. Primal Therapy is not dead. And Arthur Janov is still living. And Primal Therapy works. Not even the antagonists of the old doctor deny that. 172.173.59.242 16:11, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
• Comment. Sorry. I thought the English WIKIPEDIA is not so strange like the German WIKIPEDIA. But probably I m wrong ... 172.173.59.242 19:06, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

PS Maybe I m not wrong. 172.173.59.242 22:49, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

• Keep Whether it works or not, or still used or not, it's clearly a genuine psychological concept, and notable. --Shirahadasha 23:42, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
• Keep Without offering any opinions on the validity of the theory (which is irrelevant) this was extremely hot back in the 70's and remains somewhat active today, even if no longer trendy and endorsed by every other Hollywood celebrity, as it was then. Fan-1967 00:54, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. Well-known (at least in the U.S.) part of the history of pop psychology. Michael Kinyon 07:35, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. I Think the whole argu is just a personal defence of Nlu tho prevent him from feeling his own primale pains. But how ever I do'nt think that 93% is a minority. By the way Grahame. You did a good job. May be we can work together on a translation of the articles of primaltheory and primal pain for german to english.--Chip62 m 09:58, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. Puzzled that this is on the deletion list - it's well known in the psychotherapy world.MarkThomas 15:40, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
• Keep, what? --Liface 07:44, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.