Virtual reality (VR) and psychotherapy: Opportunities and challenges

Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 87-105

  Glantz, Kalman ^a   Durlach, Nathaniel I ^a   Barnett, Rosalind C ^a   Aviles, Walter A ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CLASSIFICATION; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; IMAGINATION; INSTRUMENTATION; MEMORY; METHODOLOGY; PHOBIA; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOTHERAPY; TECHNOLOGY;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DESENSITIZATION, PSYCHOLOGIC; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MEMORY; PHOBIC DISORDERS; PSYCHOTHERAPY; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 0031061711     PISSN: 10547460     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/pres.1997.6.1.87     Document Type: Article

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