Conversations between self and self as Sigmund Freud-A virtual body ownership paradigm for self counselling
- Submitting institution
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University College London
- Unit of assessment
- 11 - Computer Science and Informatics
- Output identifier
- 14037
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1038/srep13899
- Title of journal
- SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
- Article number
- ARTN 13899
- First page
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- Volume
- 5
- Issue
- 1
- ISSN
- 2045-2322
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- September
- Year of publication
- 2015
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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https://static-content.springer.com/esm/art%3A10.1038%2Fsrep13899/MediaObjects/41598_2015_BFsrep13899_MOESM1_ESM.pdf
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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3
- Research group(s)
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- Citation count
- 57
- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- Introduces a new paradigm for personal counselling, based on the idea that we are better at counselling a friend than ourselves. Participants successively embody two different virtual-reality representations, one of themselves and one of a clinician, maintaining a self-conversation counselling session. Multiple conditions of the setup were explored and evaluated with one shown to significantly decrease anxiety in pre-post-experimental analysis. The approach has opened up a new method for self-counselling which has been deployed experimentally in two US corporations and has been featured on the BBC, The Guardian, The New Yorker and the Wall Street Journal.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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