Virtual Iraq Treating Traumatized Vets

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Virtual Iraq Treating Traumatized Vets

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/05/19/080519fa_fact_halpern?curr...
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Like Virtual Vietnam, Virtual Iraq is a tool for doing what’s known as prolonged-exposure therapy, which is sometimes called immersion therapy. It is a kind of cognitive-behavioral therapy, derived from Pavlov’s classic work with dogs. Prolonged-exposure therapy, which falls under the rubric of C.B.T., is at once intuitively obvious and counterintuitive: it requires the patient to revisit and retell the story of the trauma over and over again and, through a psychological process called “habituation,” rid it of its overwhelming power.

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