Sep '06 - May '08
So in writing the last bits of a paper for my Traumatic Urbanism class, which I've centered on new/mass media's role as both perpetrator of the traumatic act and as stage for potential catharsis (attempting to connect this all somehow with consumption and the suburban ideal), I thought I would share a few interesting links having to do with a new treatment for PTSD that some of you may have heard about. Its called Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy - equal parts video game and medicine, brought together in a strangely twilight zone setting that borders between clinical breakthrough and naive technophilia. here are a few links:
Virtually Better
clinical case study
thoughts archinecters?
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Is Mark Jarzombek teaching that class? He mentioned PTSD at our last review.
yep. when was that?
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