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avatar therapy

08/11/2018 / By Rhonda Johansson

Schizophrenia patients are benefiting from “avatar therapy” which gives a face to their auditory hallucinations

Psychiatric medicine is attempting to understand mental illnesses by giving form to the many phantoms that plague millions of patients globally. This moves away from traditional psychiatry which assumes that mental health was something that could only be “cured” either through medicine or long, sometimes tedious, psychiatric sessions. In an attempt to treat patients better […]

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