by Kourosh | Apr 2, 2008 | On Mind, On Technology
* Please note that this is a growing list and is not yet comprehensive. If you are involved in providing mental health services and wish to be listed here, please contact me. List follows at bottom of post. Conducting therapy in SL was my...
by Kourosh | Apr 2, 2008 | On Mind, On Technology
Here are some interesting bits I picked up this morning: A game review of real-life. A quote: In terms of game play the game sets few, if any, goals: the major one is merely “survive”. What goals a player sets, are often astonishingly tedious to...
by Kourosh | Mar 27, 2008 | On Mind, On Technology
The concerns of mental health know no boundaries. When we enter the virtual worlds, we still bring ourselves. Much as the adage goes about vacations, wherever we go, there we are. As such, we can also bring the concept of therapy into these very same realms. In...
by Kourosh | Mar 13, 2008 | On Mind, On Technology
“But it’s the interplay of the ‘real’ with the virtual that is the richest source for the possibilities of change. If we purely think of virtual worlds as separate, we’re ignoring the fact that they are NOT walled gardens. They may have walls...
by Kourosh | Mar 7, 2008 | On Mind, On Music, On Technology
<p align=”center”> </p> Music is a powerful method of communication. With any type of speech, a person may feel the urge to censor the self. And yet, it is this musical suppression that forms a chasm between sounds heard near the soul...
by Kourosh | Feb 24, 2008 | On Mind
“… If a single function can be ascribed to every form of play, in every playful species, according to this way of thinking, it is that play contributes to the growth of more supple, more flexible brains.” – NYTimes article, 2/17/2008 The...
