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  1. Ep. 3 Love & the Body

    02/28/2023

    Ep. 3 Love & the Body

    Love can bring such elation and excitement to life. Love and romantic relationships affect not just our emotional well-being but also our physical well-being. How do happy and unhappily maintained relationships affect us? References Acevedo, B. P., Aron, A., Fisher, H. E., & Brown, L. L. (2012). Neural correlates of long-term intense romantic love. Social cognitive and affective neuroscience, 7(2), 145-159. Acevedo, B. P., Poulin, M. J., Collins, N. L., & Brown, L. L. (2020). After the Honeymoon: Neural and Genetic Correlates of Romantic Love in Newlywed Marriages. Frontiers in psychology, 11, 634. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00634 Ackerman, D. (2012). The brain on love. New York Times. Eisenberger, N. I. (2011). Why rejection hurts: What social neuroscience has revealed about the brain’s response to social rejection. Brain, 3(1), 10-1093. Fisher, H. E., Xu, X., Aron, A., & Brown, L. L. (2016). Intense, Passionate, Romantic Love: A Natural Addiction? How the Fields That Investigate Romance and Substance Abuse Can Inform Each Other. Frontiers in psychology, 7, 687. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00687 Grisel, J. E. (2019). Never Enough: the Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Johnson, S. M., Moser, M. B., Beckes, L., Smith, A., Dalgleish, T., Halchuk, R., & Coan, J. A. (2013). Soothing the threatened brain: Leveraging contact comfort with emotionally focused therapy. PLoS One, 8(11), e79314. Kapusta, N. D., Jankowski, K. S., Wolf, V., Chéron-Le Guludec, M., Lopatka, M., Hammerer, C., Schnieder, A., Kealy, D., Ogrodniczuk, J. S., & Blüml, V. (2018). Measuring the Capacity to Love: Development of the CTL-Inventory. Frontiers in psychology, 9, 1115. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01115 Lebow, J. L., & Snyder, D. K. (Eds.). (2022). Clinical handbook of couple therapy, Sixth edition (6th ed.). Guilford Publications.

    8 min
  2. 01/31/2023

    Ep. 1 Virtual Reality Therapy

    Is virtual reality a useful method for psychotherapy? Therapy and virtual reality have been connected for at least half a decade through various experiments. We’ll explore a couple of use cases and how this works psychologically in this episode. To see the rubber hand illusion, you can watch an example here. References Amelia Virtual Care. (n.d.) Ameliavirtualcare.com. https://ameliavirtualcare.com/virtual-reality-solution-psychology/ Brooks, F. P. (1999). What's real about virtual reality?. IEEE Computer graphics and applications, 19(6), 16-27. Gall, D., Roth, D., Stauffert, J. P., Zarges, J., & Latoschik, M. E. (2021). Embodiment in virtual reality intensifies emotional responses to virtual stimuli. Frontiers in Psychology, 12. Laurence, E. (2022). Virtual Reality Therapy: Everything You Need To Know. Forbes. https://www.forbes.com/health/mind/virtual-reality-therapy/ Longa, L. D., Sacchetti, S., Farroni, T., & McGlone, F. (2021). Does Nice or Nasty Matter? The Intensity of Touch Modulates the Rubber Hand Illusion. Frontiers in Psychology, 13. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.901413 Ma, L., Mor, S., Anderson, P. L., Baños, R. M., Botella, C., Bouchard, S., ... & Carlbring, P. (2021). Integrating virtual realities and psychotherapy: SWOT analysis on VR and MR based treatments of anxiety and stress-related disorders. Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, 50(6), 509-526. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/16506073.2021.1939410 Pan, X., Gillies, M., Barker, C., Clark, D. M., & Slater, M. (2012). Socially anxious and confident men interact with a forward virtual woman: an experimental study. PloS one, 7(4), e32931. Palmas, F., Reinelt, R., Cichor, J. E., Plecher, D. A., & Klinker, G. (2021). Virtual reality public speaking training: Experimental evaluation of direct feedback technology acceptance. In 2021 IEEE Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (VR) (pp. 463-472). IEEE. Peperkorn, H. M., Diemer, J. E., Alpers, G. W., & Mühlberger, A. (2016). Representation of patients’ hand modulates fear reactions of patients with spider phobia in virtual reality. Frontiers in psychology, 7, 268. Slater, M. (2009). Place illusion and plausibility can lead to realistic behaviour in immersive virtual environments. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 364(1535), 3549-3557.

    12 min

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