In the 90s, I read a book by an MIT psychologist that I think I remember titled "Reflections of the Self: Building Identity in the Virtual World" or something in that style, unfortunately I read it in a library and now I don't I have it at hand and I do not remember who the author was (I remember that she had a review of her work on the back cover, but in truth that for more than I tried I forgot her name)
In that book, the researcher stated that she was interested in the use of technology for the approach of psychology and possible treatments of people, among them I was struck by the use of video game environments to perform techniques similar to psychodramas, you can review what they are here, or summarize what is to make the patients represent in a group, as if it were a play, situations related to their pathological conflicts, with the objective that they become aware of them and can overcome.
Today, I was reviewing news about technology and I saw one on a site in Spanish that caught my attention and made me remember everything I wrote before.
Emotional video: mother says goodbye to her late daughter thanks to virtual reality
Jang Ji-Sung lost his seven-year-old daughter, Nayeon, in 2016 a month after being diagnosed with leukemia. As explained by the MBC documentary ‘I Met You’. The mother in the face of the painful loss wanted to meet her daughter so she could say goodbye and remember her daughter in another way.
It was there that the South Korean company Viv Studio worked hard for eight months to organize a moving meeting between her mother and Nayeon. To achieve this meeting, the video specialists collected photos and multimedia content of the child, analyzed their behavior, tone of voice and gestures. All this work was thanks to the motion capture technique that manages to create a unique and digital image and thus achieve the animation of the girl.
Source (in Spanish original)
The pain of a death is strong, that of the death of a close relative is very strong and I don't want to even think how terrible it is when it comes to your own son or daughter. The psychological crisis, depression and the inability to say goodbye to the loved one gives rise to regrets that are not easy and in some cases are never overcome.
In this sense, the idea of using a Virtual Reality environment to be able to make a "Closure" or a "Farewell" I think it may be useful, I had seen it before in cases of fear or phobia therapy, but it is the first time I see it in a treatment for "Mourning"
I wonder if a future would be possible in which other technologies are added and we could achieve an avatar that would transcend us and be able to represent us not only in terms of our image but also in our ways of thinking, in order to leave a farewell message to our relatives and allow him to close the cycle and say goodbye if they have any regrets after our own death.
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