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	Podcast:		Tapestry from CBC Radio
	Episode:		Virtual therapy made real
	Category:		Religion & Spirituality
	Duration:		00:54:09
	Publish Date:		2023-05-16 19:10:00
	Description:		John Francis Leader is a psychologist and cognitive scientist at University College Dublin. He’s the director of the Mixed Reality Therapy research project where they use virtual reality as a therapeutic tool with their patients. Leader describes the approach as “theme park meets therapy.” Fay Nugent had a serious fear of heights for years. The simple act of getting on an escalator was terrifying. Nugent heard about a clinical trial for virtual reality therapy at Oxford University and gave it a try. Could a four hour virtual reality session really ease her fears and change her life?
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