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PTSD Exposure Therapy in VR: Importance of Storytelling & Emotional Presence in Healing Trauma

Road to VR

VR is used to incrementally trigger an embodied sensory experience in PTSD patients by placing soldiers within the virtual sights, sounds, feelings, and smells of common combat scenarios in Iraq and Afghanistan. More: Here’s a 20-minute VICE Canada Story on Virtual Reality PTSD Exposure Therapy.

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How VR is Changing the Way We Think About Therapy

VRScout

If you’re at all familiar with VR, you’ve probably heard that VR is more than “just games” a time or two. Despite the recent surge in VR development over the last few years, the idea of using virtual reality in a therapeutic setting isn’t a new idea. Albert “Skip” Rizzo, Ph.D.

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