Gorrindo Tristan, Groves James E
Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School, Department of Psychiatry, Boston, MA 02114, USA.
Am J Psychother. 2012;66(2):151-63. doi: 10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.2012.66.2.151.
Virtual reality is not only being utilized increasingly as an enhancement for diagnosis and treatment of psychiatric illness, but it also can be used to model theories, generate hypotheses, and provide a new context for teaching psychodynamic therapy. Here we describe the use of an online virtual world--Second Life--as a heuristic tool for understanding and teaching a key psychoanalytic concept, transference.
Using an extended vignette to illustrate the results of the modeling process, we explore teaching the vicissitudes of object relationships by means of analogs in virtual reality.
Simple reframing operations demonstrate how traditional dynamic theories of psychiatric treatment can be brought to life in simulations using modern computer technology.
Virtual worlds offer a helpful analogy in teaching complex psychoanalytic concepts, such as transference.
虚拟现实不仅越来越多地被用作精神疾病诊断和治疗的辅助手段，还可用于构建理论模型、生成假设，并为精神动力学治疗教学提供新的情境。在此，我们描述如何使用在线虚拟世界——“第二人生”——作为一种启发式工具，来理解和教授一个关键的精神分析概念——移情。
通过一个扩展的案例 vignette 来说明建模过程的结果，我们探索如何借助虚拟现实中的类比来教授客体关系的变迁。
简单的重新构建操作展示了如何利用现代计算机技术，在模拟中使传统的精神疾病治疗动力学理论变得生动起来。
虚拟世界为教授诸如移情等复杂的精神分析概念提供了有益的类比。
