Advances in Virtual Reality and Anxiety Disorders

• Main Authors: Wiederhold, Brenda K. (Author), Bouchard, Stéphane (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Series in Anxiety and Related Disorders
• Subjects: Psychology.; Clinical psychology.; Clinical Psychology.

The interactive computer-generated world of virtual reality has been successful in treat­ing phobias and other anxiety-related conditions, in part because of its distinct advan­tages over traditional in vivo exposure. Yet many clinicians still think of VR technology as it was in the 1990s–bulky, cos...