As someone who has worked a bit in the mental health field (in internships) and is just finishing a Master's Degree in Counseling Psychology, I would say that it would be highly unlikely for Poser to ever be used as a tool in therapy. There are several reasons for this, the most pressing of which is funding. Most mental health facilities are inadequately funded, and it's getting worse what with HMO's and cutbacks in federal funding. Unless you work for a large, privately funded institution, there is probably not going to be enough money to get everyone a word processor, must less computers capable of running any sort of 3-D program, then, of course there is the cost of the software itself. Secondly, making an image in Poser can be extremely time-consuming, especially as you get better and "tweak" more areas and concentrate on detail. The time-constraints of modern therapy would not allow you to spend several sessions letting someone "play" with Poser. When the HMO's decide that a person only needs to be in therapy for 8 one hour sessions, regardless of what the therapist thinks, to use up two or three of those letting someone make a Poser image is not condusive to getting the task accomplished. I believe that as a personal form of letting out frustrations or just wanting to put together something pretty and appealing, Poser is great. But I don't ever forsee it's being used in a clinical setting.