Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Poser's Role In Psycho Theraphy and Psychiatry

biggert opened this issue on Apr 02, 2004 ยท 45 posts


aodor posted Tue, 06 April 2004 at 11:24 AM

With a friend who is a psychiatrist, I'm starting a project to use poser "morphs" of patients with Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia, to show themselves in different weights. The idea is to help them (maybe in a virtual environment) to attain a correct perception of body image, which is one of the things they have wrong when they suffer Eating Disorders. Poser models and ambients (Vue or other) can also be used in Virtual Reality as relaxing scenes during painful procedures like the changing of badages in burned patients. VR has shown to be distracting enough to raise pain threashold. We are also using poser animations in showing rehabilitation techniques for diverse disabilities. Although this is no pure psychotherapy, its effect on the patients and ability to follow the exercises can also have good psychological effects. Alberto Odor, MD Mexico City