The people at gameChange say that the VR therapy provided “allows a person to practise being in simulations of everyday situations … a café, shop, pub, street, doctor’s surgery, and a bus.” The background to this approach is described as follows:…
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A UK trial has found that confronting an avatar on a computer screen helped people who hear voices to cope better with these auditory hallucinations. Patients who received this therapy became less distressed and heard voices less often compared with…
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This excellent Horizon programme (BBC2) follows people living with voices, hallucinations and paranoia to explore the causes. For hundreds of years, psychiatry has treated voices and hallucinations as an enemy – regarding them as ‘insanity’ or ‘madness’ and seeing…
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