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  • Psychiatry
  • Human-Computer Interaction

Background:

  • Virtual Reality (VR) is increasingly used in psychological interventions, particularly in cognitive-behavioral therapies.
  • Its application in psychodynamic and insight-oriented therapies is nascent.
  • This paper explores VR's potential to complement psychodynamic work.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To examine how Virtual Reality (VR) can be utilized in psychodynamic therapy.
  • To explore VR's capacity to facilitate connection with unconscious processes, relational patterns, and emotional experiences.
  • To investigate VR's role in activating symbolic and affective dimensions of the psyche.

Main Methods:

  • Building on psychoanalytic concepts (reality testing, unconscious fantasy, transference, transitional objects).
  • Examining how VR experiences activate symbolic and affective dimensions.
  • Analyzing patient projection of inner conflicts, avatar interaction, and emotionally charged narratives within virtual environments.

Main Results:

  • VR enables patients to project inner conflicts and interact with avatars representing self or others.
  • Embodied qualities of VR, like avatar identification, support exploration of identity and dissociated self-states.
  • Challenges include individual response variability, cybersickness, and potential inhibition of spontaneity; technical/financial barriers also exist.

Conclusions:

  • VR expands the analytic setting into a dynamic, embodied space for emotional and symbolic exploration.
  • It offers clinicians new modalities for practice while preserving therapeutic depth.
  • VR should be viewed as a flexible tool complementing, not replacing, traditional psychotherapeutic methods.