Hearing voices? giving them a face can help

• Autores: Jessica Bond
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3154, 2017, pág. 11
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • For people who hear voices, interacting with virtual avatars that embody the voices might be key to a speedy reduction in the distress they cause. A team led by Tom Craig and Philippa Garety at Kings College London gave six sessions of emotional counseling or avatar therapy to 150 volunteers with auditory verbal hallucinations that hadn't improved with drugs. A few weeks after the sessions ended, the voices heard by the avatar therapy group were reported to be significantly less upsetting compared with people who had received counseling. They heard voices less often, and felt these were less powerful and distressing. The improvement was greater than that reported for cognitive behavioral therapy, and the effects lasted when the participants were reassessed three months later