{"id":146,"date":"2024-10-29T08:44:34","date_gmt":"2024-10-29T08:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2024\/10\/29\/you-tried-to-tell-yourself-i-wasnt-real-what-happens-when-people-with-acute-psychosis-meet-the-voices-in-their-heads\/"},"modified":"2024-10-29T08:44:34","modified_gmt":"2024-10-29T08:44:34","slug":"you-tried-to-tell-yourself-i-wasnt-real-what-happens-when-people-with-acute-psychosis-meet-the-voices-in-their-heads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2024\/10\/29\/you-tried-to-tell-yourself-i-wasnt-real-what-happens-when-people-with-acute-psychosis-meet-the-voices-in-their-heads\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018You tried to tell yourself I wasn\u2019t real\u2019: what happens when people with acute psychosis meet the voices in their heads?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Avatar therapy may help in treating mental health conditions beyond psychosis. Preliminary research from Ward\u2019s team with an avatar embodying the \u201canorexic voice\u201d has shown it to be a promising intervention for eating disorders. Glenth\u00f8j is researching VR-based avatar therapy for obsessive compulsive disorder. Ward also wants to investigate whether dialogues with avatars could help people who struggle with anxiety or depression. \u201cThe technology is about creating this external representation of the dark side of yourself,\u201d Craig said. \u201cAt some level, this is about thoughts, isn\u2019t it?\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 Read on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2024\/oct\/29\/acute-psychosis-inner-voices-avatar-therapy-psychiatry\">www.theguardian.com\/news\/2024\/oct\/29\/acute-psychosis-inner-voices-avatar-therapy-psychiatry<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Avatar therapy may help in treating mental health conditions beyond psychosis. Preliminary research from Ward\u2019s team with an avatar embodying the \u201canorexic voice\u201d has shown it to be a promising intervention for eating disorders. Glenth\u00f8j is researching VR-based avatar therapy for obsessive compulsive disorder. Ward also wants to investigate whether dialogues with avatars could help [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}