Talk:Focusing
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[edit] Major anon edit
A major anon edit has been applied [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Focusing&curid=911776&diff=30825084&oldid=27584343}. There's quite a bit of opinion in the new version, but there is enough new, good content that I decided not to revert it. The article would benefit from a proper review, especially of this edit. --- Charles Stewart 15:22, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
The whole article is confusing, vague, off-topic, opinionated, and promotional of individual focusing practitioners. Completely non-representative of what focusing is or aims to do. I suggest a complete rewrite, based on the introduction to the Focusing book, and that's it -- no added fluff or opinion, not even Gendlin's later thought. Softlavender 11:17, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Rewrite
(see comment above)
As an advocate for the reader who will come to this article wondering what the heck Focusing is and whether it can help them with their personal and psychological problems, I have used the K.I.S.S. principle and used ONLY what would benefit the newcomer and the uninformed. One must remember that this is a psychology article and not a philosophy article. Speculative and advanced material should either be on Gendlin's Wikipedia article or in a subsection (with appropriate subheading) to this article, at the bottom. Material mentioning or promoting other practitioners and contributors to the process is questionable at best -- if it must be included, in order not to muddy the clear simple gist of the article, it should be added at the bottom of the article under a heading called "Further developments." I question whether the mentioning of this practioner information (and other abstruse information) is germane to this article, or more appropriate to be kept on the Focusing Institute's own web page.
In short, what I have done is take the information from the book Focusing and put it in simple digested terms, to form a clear and simple introductory article on what focusing is. I hope uninformed readers find it helpful and useful. Softlavender 11:18, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] "Focusing" — to capitalize or not to capitalize?
Of course an editor or proofreader would insist on perfect consistency one way or another; but though it seems important to capitalize the word to distinguish it as a specific technique, and to differentiate it from the ordinary meaning of the word, to capitalize it every single time is mightily oppressive. Conversely, to have it lowercase every time seems somewhat misleading, as the fact of it as a unique process seems denied. Taking my cue from the Focusing Institute's website, I have capitalized somewhat, but not always.
Opinions? I feel that if we must be consistent, lowercase throughout is definitely preferable. Gendlin himself does not capitalize the word in his book Focusing. Softlavender 22:53, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
