Charles Linden

Charles Linden (born February 4, 1968 in Kidderminster , Worcestershire ) is a British life coach and author. He deals with anxiety disorders and sells the Linden method he developed .

Life

Charles Linden was born in 1968 in Kidderminster in Worcestershire ( GB ) to the civil engineer Lindsay Linden and the textile designer Jane Linden. In the first seven years of his life he developed generalized anxiety disorder , panic attacks , agoraphobia and obsessive-compulsive disorder . After school, Charles Linden completed a basic art course and worked as an ice cream seller.

From 1987 to 1992 Charles Linden worked in Heidelberg , Karlsruhe and Baden-Baden for the American and Canadian military. During this time he also suffered from various anxiety disorders, which ended with hospitalization. According to another source, he worked in Germany as a representative for Chrysler and General Motors .

From 1992 to 1997 Charles Linden studied electronic media at the Universities of Hull and Wolverhampton , which was only possible with heavy medication, and eventually worked as a cameraman and director for television. In 1997, after numerous unsuccessful treatments using recognized healing methods ( psychotherapy , hypnotherapy , medication , meditation , Reiki and others), he found healing through his own three-month study of previous anxiety patients and their individual methods of healing. On this basis, he wrote a catalog of measures, which he summarized in 1997 under the name Linden Method .

Charles Linden has been a book author, coach and life coach since 1997 and represents his healing methods - in addition to books and CDs - on the web, in workshops, at conferences and in television programs.

Charles Linden is married to Beth Linden and has two children (* 2002 and * 2005). Beth Linden is also a business partner of Charles Linden.

Linden method

Charles Linden has been selling the Linden method since 1997 in the form of folders, books, audio CDs and apps .

The Linden method is based on elements of cognitive psychology , behavior therapy , hypnotherapy , autosuggestion , respiratory therapy , nutritional physiology and general ideas about how to live. The Linden Method is based on a catalog of nine principles, which are referred to as the Nine Pillars . In it, positive perspectives and ways of acting are evoked in an auto-suggestive way. The Linden method advises against combined treatment methods and is particularly directed against cognitive behavioral therapy and drug therapies.

The basic learning set, consisting of a folder and several CDs, is relatively expensive at EUR 139, but it is accompanied by a free offer of telephone support in English and German (as of 2013).

According to his own statements, the author sold around 150,000 basic learning sets from 1997 to 2012. Since the costs of these learning sets are fully reimbursed in the event of customer dissatisfaction and the reimbursement rate is only 5%, the author concludes that customer satisfaction is almost without exception and that his method is almost completely successful in healing.

In addition to the printed and digital media, Charles Linden offers two- to four-day workshops and coaching. The work in the workshops consists of body therapy sessions, posture and breathing training, massages, individual sessions and group sessions.

Charles Linden runs a center in his hometown of Kidderminster and one in Heidelberg with teams of nine or four people (as of 2013).

Embedding and evaluation

Charles Linden is a founding member of the Emotions Research Consortium with psychologists Roddy Cowie and Francis Teeney from Queen's University Belfast . Francis Teeney considers the Linden Method to be psychologically sound. He puts the Linden method in close proximity to the Mickel therapy developed by the Scottish doctor David Mickel .

Charles Linden is the subject of television broadcasts ( BBC ) as well as articles in newspapers and magazines. In general, the Linden method is rated rather positively in these media reports. British celebrities such as the writer Plum Sykes , the fashion consultant Gok Wan or the models Jodie and Jemma Kidd claim to have been cured of various anxiety disorders using the Linden Method.

The field of reviews in blogs is wide. The Linden method itself and Charles Linden's numerous websites are sometimes judged to be boisterous or uninviting . The German documents are as bad , or at least poorly translated assessed. Positive characteristics that are mentioned are simplicity, pragmatism, authenticity and straightforwardness. Testimonials in text and video form praise the success of the method, while other critics partly condemn the Linden method in the strongest possible way.

Works

• Charles Linden, Tanya Klein, Anna Dragmanli and Andreas Schuster (2006). Linden method: method against anxiety disorders and panic attacks . LifeWise Publishing. ISBN 978-0954980320 .
• Charles Linden (2007). Stress Free in 30 Days . Hay House UK Ltd. ISBN 978-1-78180-153-6 .

Web links

• English website of the Charles Linden Foundation
• German website of the Linden Center in Heidelberg

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e} beginning of the newspaper article How anxious are you? dated June 30, 2012 on the Times website ; Full text ( memento of the original from August 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , published by Charles Linden himself. 
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h} Autobiographical information ( memento of the original dated February 11, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on August 18, 2013. 
3. ↑ Price information ( Memento of the original from August 20, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. for Germany, accessed on August 19, 2013.  
4. ↑ Information provided by the author, confirmation in various blogs, no blog entries to the contrary.
5. ↑ 5% , accessed on August 18, 2013.
6. ↑ Open Day of the UK Linden Center ( Memento of the original from August 25, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed August 19, 2013. 
7. ↑ Team ( Memento of the original from March 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. of the center in Heidelberg, accessed on August 19, 2013.  
8. ↑ Rating ( Memento of the original from August 22, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. of the Linden Method by Francis Teeney, accessed August 19, 2013. A source that is not published on a Charles Linden website would be preferable.  
9. ↑ Mickel Therapy website , accessed on August 19, 2013.
10. ↑ American Vogue , April 2012 issue.
11. ↑ broadcast the BBC the 23 March 2009 called on August 19, 2013.
12. ↑ Interview with Jemma Kidd on a talk show on the British broadcaster Independent Television . Accessed August 20, 2013.
13. ↑ Example of a blog post that simultaneously lists positive and negative points. Accessed August 19, 2013.