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Her two most well known books Heal Your Body and You Can Heal Your Life directly associate physical problems such as cancer with specific negative emotional patterns, and make the controversial claim that healing the emotional components will also heal the physical conditions.
Is 'controversial' just a different way of saying 'unsupported', or even 'false'? Mr-Thomas 12:09, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
Perhaps the issue is not whether it is "controversial" but whether Hay substantiates it with any science. The relationship she speaks of only seems incredulous when one thinks of emotion as a non-physical event. There is a substantial body of literature in the broad field of psychophysiology and the narrower field of behavioral medicine to support [1] and contradict [2] her apparently controversial claim. -- Suidafrikaan 19:26, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
Can we add Psuedo-scientist to her titles? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.114.215.185 ( talk) 04:03, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
Is this a biography? Seems more like a carefully crafted advertisement to me ;) Pytrash ( talk) 06:09, 17 October 2009 (UTC)
The intro should be an overview of the whole article (See WP:LEAD), followed by the details of her life and career. I did some reorganization, but the article needs dates to be inserted. When did she get married? When did the other events in her life happen? The references listed have more information, which should be used to expand the article, and more references should be identified and cited. The section about her books and teachings needs to be expanded and better cited. Also, the quotes section is unreferenced and unencyclopedic. If she is famous for these quotes, the article should say where they come from and explain their notability. Best regards, -- Ssilvers 15:09, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
User:Ekabhishek has just made a large number of changes to this article (and to Hay House that introduce a large number of claims that are:
I have therefore reverted them. Hrafn Talk Stalk 06:46, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
This seems a strange and contrived construction. Better to have a single life section with items sourced from Autobiographical sources clearly flagged and cited. I have changed the section to "Life" so that material from may sources can be included in a single narrative. Lumos3 ( talk) 08:51, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
It is ironical, one of the few noteworthy spiritual authors to come out of America, has few people approaching her life story with the reverence it deserves, and many tend to play with her biography, without adding anything susbstantial, rather taking pride in deleting matter, under the pretext of editorial license. We all know, what happens when a nation forgets to honour its wise. ( Ekabhishek ( talk) 11:34, 14 June 2008 (UTC))
Pur-lease -- America has been chock full of self-styled spiritual leaders for centuries, most of whom have seen fit to leave their thoughts in writing as a legacy -- Mormonism, Seventh-day Adventism, Christian Science, New Thought, to just name a few of the more notable & older movements. What this article needs is material based upon serious and scholarly biographical sources -- not half-baked and incorrectly sourced puffery. Hrafn Talk Stalk 16:44, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
This clearly shows that you are negatively biased against the article and the author, and are bringing personal prejudices to the space, which is no longer needed on wikipedia, let alone this article. And this proves that you are no longer qualified to be an editor to the article, either you stop working on this or I will have to report you! ( Ekabhishek ( talk) 06:32, 15 June 2008 (UTC))
Extreme care needs to be taken to attribute all facts in the biography of a living person. All the facts reported in the life need to be attributed to a reliable source to avoid possible libel. I have labeled each fact with its source in this biography with its source yet User:Hrafn has removed these twice now. I suggest he reads Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons. These are not autobiographical they are the work of the New York Times writer Mark Oppenheimer research at an interview with Louise Hay. In any case autobiography is an acceptable source. Lumos3 ( talk) 21:01, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
I have been reverting two things:
Hrafn Talk Stalk 04:48, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
Hrafn Talk Stalk 18:19, 19 June 2008 (UTC)
I suggest you take a look at this list of featured articles of Living people
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Carcharoth/Featured_articles_needing_regular_updates#Living_people_biographies_.2880.29. Since they are worked over by the whole community featured articles are a better indication of current good practice than those set out in the written procedures. It shows that where a Living person is concerned each statement needs to be unambiguously cited. Bunching multiple statements together under one citation might be easier and OK for most articles but for a Living person the standard is much higher. We cant leave claims seemingly unattributed or open to being separated from their source at some time in the future.
Lumos3 (
talk)
09:50, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
If you think that I'm wrong, then you're welcome to take it up at WT:BLP or WT:CITE, call a WP:RFC, or whatever -- but you have presented no evidence for your position, so I'm sick of arguing about it based upon nothing but assertions. Hrafn Talk Stalk 15:48, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
I have added one more citation at the first mention of the NYT interview and I'll be happy to leave it there for now until more material becomes available. Lumos3 ( talk) 14:00, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
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OK not sure how this works so I put it here ... This paragraph is copy/pasted:
Hay described how in 1977 or 1978 she was diagnosed with "incurable" cervical cancer, and how she came to the conclusion that by holding on to her resentment for her childhood abuse and rape she had contributed to its onset. She reported how she had refused conventional medical treatment, and began a regime of forgiveness, coupled with therapy, nutrition, reflexology, and occasional colonic enemas. She claimed in the interview that she rid herself of the cancer by this method, but, while swearing to its truth, admitted that she had outlived every doctor who could confirm this story.[1]
In the last sentence, isn't the use of the word "admitted" a little biased, did she admit or did she simply state ? Seems a possibly a little political to me, thoughts invited. Perhaps it could be marked with one of those 'citation needed' things or similar ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.24.104.55 ( talk) 14:16, 10 January 2020 (UTC)