AUGMENTED PSYCHOLOGY®
Virtual Realities for the Processing of Emotional Distress
These virtual reality experiences allow psychologists and/or psychotherapists to integrate an innovative and effective method into their daily practice, enabling patients/users to experience true metaphorical transformation stories through specific protocols. These multisensory narratives are enhanced by immersion in virtual realities designed and soundscaped specifically to stimulate the person's perceptual-reactive, imaginative, emotional, cognitive, and metacognitive systems, helping them, through engaging techniques of imagery and guided visualizations, to promote the reprocessing of emotional experiences, the desensitization of negative emotions, and the amplification of positive emotions, fostering psycho-emotional support, post-traumatic growth, and psychological rehabilitation.
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Below are the teasers for the experiences currently available.
The Tree and the Shoots
In this Virtual Reality experience, you enter a forest and, after a few steps, a fragile and barkless little tree appears, with slender branches and a few dry leaves, among a group of very large trees. Until the sapling begins to transform...
The Sea and the Sailboat
In this Virtual Reality experience, you find yourself on a dock's pier to take a sailboat. Once out at sea, at a certain point during the navigation, the weather conditions change drastically, giving way to a dangerous storm...
The Mountain and the Backpack
In this Virtual Reality experience, you find yourself on a mountain hike with a backpack on your shoulders. A stop under a tree in front of the lake allows you to take the backpack off your shoulders and remove the two large heavy stones it contains to continue the journey...
The Hero and the Dragon
In this Virtual Reality experience, you are about to enter a forest. As darkness and fog take over the scene, you catch glimpses of some wolves among the trees, still and menacing. When the fog clears, you find yourself in front of an ancient castle, where you encounter a dragon...
The Black Hole and the Ampoule
In this Virtual Reality experience, you find yourself suspended in the void wearing a spacesuit equipped with small rockets that allow you to control your movement. At one point, a black hole appears on the horizon, slowly approaching as it engulfs and sucks in everything that enters its gravitational field...
The Desert and the Oasis
In this Virtual Reality experience, you find yourself on the sand dunes of a vast desert. As you move forward, suddenly, you are enveloped by a sandstorm. After this moment passes, the sky clears up and a scorpion appears, while an oasis is glimpsed on the horizon...
The Ice Cave and the Heart
In this Virtual Reality experience, you find yourself walking in a frozen wasteland, in the midst of a storm. At one point, you catch a glimpse of a cave, inside of which you see a heart of stone and ice barely beating on a rock...
The River and the Leaf
In this experience, one finds themselves following the bed of a small river, where a dry leaf is submerged by the water, another leaf is stranded on the shore, and yet another is passively carried away by a secondary tributary. Until the last leaf appears...
The House in the Fog
In this Virtual Reality experience, you find yourself in a park at night. After observing sneaky rats and a broken clock, you proceed down a dark path, where you encounter figures that may represent important people in your life...
Areas and Recipients
These virtual reality experiences can be used by psychologists and/or psychotherapists working in private practices, public and private healthcare organizations, psychological clinics, rehabilitation centers, and other entities. These experiential metaphors represent an innovative tool to facilitate the reprocessing of emotional distress, promoting a re-signification of the life events of the patient/user.
Private Studies in Psychology and Psychotherapy, Associated Clinical Centers
Health Companies, Hospitals, and Private Clinics
Centers for Nutrition and Eating Disorders and Bariatric Surgery
Services for Addictions
Child and Adolescent Neuropsychiatry Units
Psych-Oncology
Patient or Caregiver Associations
Universities and Research Institutions
Usage protocols
The Virtual Reality Augmented Clinical Practice Protocol allows trained psychologists and/or psychotherapists to administer Augmented Psychology® experiences to patients/users. This intervention is aimed at reprocessing emotional distress and experiences.
Choose between asynchronous online courses and in-person courses.
The Scientific Research
The Virtual Reality experiences of Augmented Psychology® have been designed based on the latest frontiers of neuroscientific research.
The scientific literature on this method boasts several publications and numerous ongoing trials (from Eating and Nutrition Disorders to Psycho-Oncology).
Among others, the experience "The River and the Leaf" has been the subject of a project on the psychological wellbeing of primary care physicians.
Supported Virtual Reality Headsets, Available Languages and Formats
The experiences of Augmented Psychology® are currently available in the following formats:
• Immersive Virtual Reality for Meta Quest Virtual Reality headsets;
• Non-immersive Virtual Reality (2D videos accessible via browser);
• Sound Virtual Reality (audio mp3).
These experiences last about 10 minutes and are currently available in Italian and English (any additional language can be arranged by requesting a specific quote).
BECOME periodically releases new virtual reality experiences of this type, making them available to professionals and organizations that have a valid subscription.
