Chapter 8 Overcoming phobias Harnessing the power of immersive virtual reality therapy
Agnieszka Popławska
SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Faculty of Psychology in Sopot, Sopot, Poland
Jacek Lebiedź
Gdańsk University of Technology, Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics, Gdańsk, Poland
Przemysław Bąbel
Jagiellonian University, Institute of Psychology, Kraków, Poland
8.1 Introduction
The goal of the chapter is to review the different therapeutic techniques used in the treatment of various forms of phobias, with particular emphasis on virtual reality treatment. We define different types of phobias, including social ones. We also describe treatment techniques – adopted from ...
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