Talk:Paul McKenna

message: AFAIK, neither NLP practitioners nor hypnotists like to refer to their services as "therapy," in that they will often try to help people improve, rather than fix a problem. Yakuman 00:34, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Style note

message: Winston Smith you should call it what it is. Not 'edit wars'. The question is. Unwitting dupe or?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.197.206.174 (talk) 14:00, 16 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Censorship

message: This article is constantly in edit wars with anonymous user(s).  I ask that this page be semi-protected, so that editing by unregistered or newly registered users is disabled. Can anyone help with this? Yakuman 04:33, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Edit wars

message: The 209.218.163.2 IP address may to belong to a hotel -- the Sunset Marquis Hotel in Los Angeles -- so a permanent block may not be advisable. Yakuman 05:57, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: To Admins

message: I added back the bit about McKenna's libel suit.  It is relevant to the section it was in, since it's about libel litigation.  And it's relevant to the article as a whole, because it shows that he was stupid enough to pay for a degree from LaSalle University (Louisiana), whose operator, according to Assistant US Attorney General William Moschella, pleaded guilty to conspiracy for falsely claiming it was accredited.  He later realized that he had been duped, applied for compensation, and got another degree somewhere else.
Please don't remove it without a discussion.  Novalis 21:06, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: LaSalle

message: Have I missed something out? Why is the article categorized in :Category:Social psychology? --Ibn Battuta 13:08, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Category: Social psychology? 

message: There is nothing on the article about his family or personal life; a major omission for a biographical article about a celebrity. Does anyone know any information about it. Werdnawerdna (talk) 04:57, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: There is nothing in the article because no editor has included information that has been published in a reliable source. If you know of a source that has such material, add it to the article or leave a note/link here and request that someone else add it. -- The Red Pen of Doom 13:27, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: There was some info about a girl, but it vanished.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.139.164.103 (talk) 15:03, 15 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Apparently, the girl dumped him on television.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.139.164.103 (talk) 15:11, 15 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Family and personal life

message: McKenna and celebs.
Not enough discussion of his working with celebs, sports stars and boxers.
They include DeGeneres and Bandler.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.82.116.138 (talk) 12:53, 3 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Celebs

message: The site www.officialpaulmckenna.com has been "under construction" for a long time.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.160.130.236 (talk) 13:55, 19 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: It has been "under construction" for years.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.139.184.183 (talk) 12:15, 22 April 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: You now get an error message.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.171.217.231 (talk) 16:00, 12 June 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: All three sites of McKenna's now give error messages.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.171.217.231 (talk) 16:24, 12 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Under construction 

message: Apparently, Grinder prefers the German pronunciation of his name.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.139.184.183 (talk) 12:10, 22 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Grinder 

message: McKenna's stay at East Hertfordshire College must have been short. He seems to have left school at 16 and started work at 16.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Anti-McK (talk • contribs) 09:32, 27 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Short stay at East Hertfordshire 

message: McKenna charges £14,000 Sterling for a life transformation course.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.241.65.4 (talk) 17:27, 12 October 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Paul McKenna has produced an app called "Ultimate Golf Success".  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.153.143.31 (talk) 14:53, 29 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  14,000 

message: Substituted at 02:28, 30 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Assessment comment

message: Repetition is appearing in this article. Ellen and David are mentioned twice.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 31.54.201.183 (talk) 06:45, 7 July 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Repetition 

message: This article mentions "The Hypnotic World of Paul McKenna" but does not say what this programme was (it was an attempt to use hypnosis as a form of entertainment).Vorbee (talk) 16:54, 1 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Hypnotic World of Paul McKenna

message: I am editing on behalf of Paul McKenna and will follow all rules and guidelines concerning editors with a conflict of interest.
I would like to put forward the following text for inclusion in the Research section of the article. 
Previously, there was an Education section on this article, which has since been subsumed into the Libel lawsuits section. As the degrees were obtained in adult rather than early life and are arguably more research-based than taught in any case, I would like to suggest adding McKenna’s degrees into the existing Research section rather than re-creating an Education section. I’ve also suggested moving some of the information from the Libel lawsuits section to avoid repetition, but they could be repeated if deemed necessary. I have also suggested an explanatory note on accreditation, which is not strictly relevant to McKenna as Animalparty noted in December 2022, but has been a point of contention on this article for over a decade.
Text to be moved from first paragraph of Libel lawsuits section to become first/second paragraph of the Research section indicated in italics: 
:Research
:In 1996, McKenna was granted a PhD from LaSalle University in Louisiana. It was legally licensed by the state, but it falsely claimed to be an accredited institution.The school exempted McKenna from coursework based on his prior work, and his dissertation was producing a series of self-help tapes that eventually became a book, Change Your Life in Seven Days.
:Discovery of this lack of accreditation prompted McKenna to obtain another PhD from Revans University in 2003. The title of his thesis was "The Effects of Fixed Action Patterns and Neuro-Linguistic Programming in Determining Outcomes in Human Behaviour".
:McKenna specialises in post-traumatic stress disorder, severe trauma, pain control and emotional overwhelm ... [remaining content from the Research section]
As a further point of news, McKenna has published a new book this year, Success for Life. Could this be added to the List of Published Works? 
* Success For Life: The Secret to Achieving Your True Potential, Headline Publishing Group: 2024. 
Notes
Many thanks! Memereese (talk) 16:36, 24 April 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Encoded  Talk 💬 07:31, 1 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: @Encoded Thank you so much for answering and so quickly! I have made some quick changes to the live text (deleting duplicate section title, moving it to the existing section and removing the "... [remaining content from the Research section] note") which I hope are uncontroversial but any issues please step in. Thanks again for you response and have a lovely day! Memereese (talk) 08:35, 1 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: Edit Request