Wolfgang Linden
Wolfgang Linden is a clinical psychologist, author, and emeritus professor at the University of British Columbia (UBC), whose research spans psycho-cardiology, cardiac rehabilitation, hypertension, and psycho-oncology.
He is a Fellow of both the Canadian Psychological Association and the American Psychological Association, and has authored seven books, most recently The Illusion of Control (2024).
This is the best-sourced subject in the batch for genuine independent secondary coverage: two published book reviews (in Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, Practice, Training and the British Journal of Psychiatry) and a 1989 Vancouver Sun newspaper feature quote/photo caption about his autogenic-training work.
Notability & Coverage Analysis
Independent, published book reviews of Autogenic Training: A Clinical Guide (Bennington 1992; Westbrook 1992) are exactly the kind of secondary, independent, reliable-source coverage that WP:AUTHOR and WP:GNG look for, and are already used substantively (with attributed quotations) in the current article — a notable improvement over the CV-only sourcing seen elsewhere in this batch.
The 1989 Vancouver Sun photo-caption/feature is a genuine independent press mention, albeit a minor one.
Fellowship in both the CPA and APA supports WP:NPROF C3, and a UBC Senior Investigator Award (referenced in the article’s footnotes though not narrated in the main text) would add further institutional recognition if incorporated.
Solutions
Existing Article Audit
Content
- This is the best-constructed article in the batch: it correctly uses independent book reviews with direct, attributed quotations rather than only paraphrasing primary CV material.
- The bibliography/works section is thorough and well organized by theme (cardiovascular, psycho-oncology, books).
Sources
- No major gaps; consider searching for any reviews of the more recent books (2018, 2024) to extend the same independent-review treatment to his later work.
Compliance
- Verifiability: strong.
- NPOV: the quoted reviewer praise is appropriately attributed rather than stated as fact in Wikipedia’s voice, the correct NPOV handling of positive review quotations.
- This article needs the least remedial work of any subject in the batch.
Improvement Plan
- Search for independent reviews of Linden’s two most recent books to extend the same well-attributed-quotation approach already used for the 1990 book.
- Consider adding the UBC Senior Investigator Award (already in the footnotes) to the main Recognition list if independently confirmed.
- No urgent compliance fixes are needed; this article can serve as the internal style model for revising the weaker articles in this batch.