Talk:Norman Doidge

Flawed article
I just went through and removed large chunks of the article based upon the 'Biographies of living persons' guidance. Much of the information contained with the article both violated NPOV and lacked a source, while other portions were years out of date. In its current state, this article is not adequately informative or particularly useful, and I would hope that someone with a greater knowledge of Doidge will fill in the gaps.

There is also one citation (8) which is 'untrustworthy' on web of trust. I am hesitant to remove it, since it is one of the very few citations the article has, but I am also not willing to click through it to attempt to verify its state. Foundling (talk) 19:05, 11 March 2014 (UTC)

Odd Secrecy
Why is there no mention of Dr. Doidge’s year of birth? As innocuous as this detail may be, it is systematically lacking in all Internet sources related to him. Even if this absence is due to a personal choice of Dr. Doidge, it is the Wikipedia's duty to try to provide it, or point out why this is not possible. Elitzur (talk) 14:28, 27 May 2011 (UTC)


 * If you find a reliable source that gives his age, please feel free to add it to the article. Looie496 (talk) 16:29, 27 May 2011 (UTC)

March 2015
I've moved the lists of awards and keynotes out of the article as they gave the article a promotional tone. I doubt the keynotes are significant enough to include (WP:UNDUE), and the sections are mostly unsourced, but sources can probably be found for some of it, and the entries that are already sourced can probably be integrated into the article in a more neutral fashion. The original content is copied below.  Sunrise    (talk)  23:55, 10 March 2015 (UTC)

Keynotes
The Gairdner Foundation/Graham Boeckh Foundation Public Lecture, Montreal, 2011; McLuhan Galaxy Celebrations: Tracce Del Futuro “Traces of the Future” Keynote Address: Cambiano i media, cambiano il cervello Universita La Splenza, Via Salaria, Rome, Italy, 2011; Plenary Presentation, Neuroscience Research Institute, Peking University East West Conference, Beijing, 2010; Brisbane Writers Festival, 2010 Brisbane Australia; Keynote, Goethe University, Frankfurt, 2009; International Society for Neurofeedback Research, Denver, 2010; United Nations, New York, 2009; Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience, Dublin, Ireland 2009; London School of Economics, 2009; Royal Society of the Arts, London England 2009; Sydney Writers' Festival, Sydney Australia, 2009; Mind Science Foundation Distinguished Speakers Series, San Antonio Texas, 2008; Genoa Science Festival, Genoa Italy, 2008; Harvard-MIT sponsored conference Learning & the Brain, Cambridge, MA 2008.

Honors
2008 The Ken Book Award, of the National Alliance on Mental Illness, for an “outstanding literary work contributing to better understanding of mental illness as a neurobiological disease.”; 2008 Mary S. Sigourney Award Trust, in International Psychoanalysis, “recognizing significant contributions to the field of psychoanalysis.”; 2007, The Brain That Changes Itself chosen as one of the "Guardian" (UK) best books of the year; 2007,The Brain That Changes Itself chosen one of the top ten science books by amazon.com; 2007, chosen one of the top books of the year by "Slate Magazine" (Internet, U.S.); 2007, one of the best books of the year by The "Globe and Mail"; 2007, top books of the year by the "National Post"; 2007, one of the top  books of the year, by amazon.ca; 2007, chosen by Scientific American as a Main Selection; 2002 Winner of the National Magazine Award, Gold Award, for the Best Profile published in Canada; 2001 Winner of the Canadian National Magazine Award President’s Medal, for the best non-fiction article published in Canada in the year 2000, “Love, Friendship and the Art of Dying- A conversation with Saul Bellow.”; 2000, National Magazine Award, Gold Award, for the Best  Profile published in Canada in the year; 1998 Winner of the American Psychoanalytic Association’s Committee on Research and Special Training (CORST) Essay Prize in Psychoanalysis and Culture; 2008 Elected to Membership of the American College of Psychoanalysts for “many outstanding achievements in psychiatry and psychoanalysis.”; 1997–present "Canadian Who’s Who"; 1995 Gold Award, Prix du Magazine Canadien-National Magazine Awards, Personal Journalism; 1994 First Place Winner, Personal Essay, C.B.C./Saturday Night Literary Award now called the “Canadian Literary Award.” This award has been considered the most important  literary competition in Canada for an unpublished literary work.

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External links modified
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 * Added archive http://web.archive.org/web/20110129151037/http://www.tvo.org:80/TVOsites/WebObjects/TvoMicrosite.woa?mysteriesofthemind to http://www.tvo.org/TVOsites/WebObjects/TvoMicrosite.woa?mysteriesofthemind

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TV
This section is full of unsourced claims, and these PBS fundraising documentaries are notoriously full of woo. This needs to be handled way, way more carefully.

In July 2009, Doidge co-wrote and appeared in a documentary television program for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in which he traveled across North America observing case studies and demonstrating examples of neuroplasticity in The Brain That Changes Itself. The film was directed by Mike Sheerin and produced by 90th Parallel Productions. And in 2010, he participated in a follow-up documentary by the same production company called "Changing Your Mind". This documentary looked at how neuroplasticity and the changing brain is used to treat mental disorders like obsessive compulsive disorder, post-traumatic stress, and schizophrenia. "Changing Your Mind" aired on CBC's The Nature of Things. A longer version of both films has been co-produced by Arte for distribution in Europe. His work was also featured in, and used as part of the narrative basis for, the PBS special, "The Brain Fitness Program," which became PBS's most successful fundraising program of all time. Doidge's work has been the subject of a number of full length TV programs in the English speaking world. Doidge hosted the 25-hour TVO television series, Mysteries of the Mind: From Brilliant to Broken on TVO. He appears on radio and television programs, and has been on PBS, NPR, CBS, CNN, ABC, TVO, CTV, CBC among others.
 * Film and television=

-- Jytdog (talk) 04:32, 28 August 2017 (UTC)

Pseudoscientific beliefs / vaccines autism
This article needs to highlight that many of Doidge's claims have been disputed. He has made links between vaccines and autism. He has touted cures for things that simply have no evidence and have not been peer reviewed. I think it's pretty shocking he has largely got away with so much since he is a psychiatrist. He's only published roughly 20 papers according to Scopus, and almost none of them are original research or even related to neuroplasticity? I do not know why the current wiki article makes claims about him being this great neuroplasticity researcher. He's a best selling author, and his books are promoted by discredited brain training groups. Here is a reasonably good summary of some of the claims--Sxologist (talk) 03:00, 5 May 2020 (UTC)
 * I just added the fact that he wrote the foreword to 12 Rules for Life. Did you know that? I'll have to look into other claims later…of course, anyone else can as I'm quite occupied IRL. Psiĥedelisto (talk • contribs) please always ping! 23:15, 2 February 2022 (UTC)

Needle Points article and YouTube video (cohosted with Jordan Peterson) should be added. It deals with vaccine hesitancy during the COVID 19 pandemic
Needle Points article and YouTube video (cohosted with Jordan Peterson) should be added. It deals with vaccine hesitancy during the COVID 19 pandemic 201.123.100.50 (talk) 01:02, 3 February 2022 (UTC)