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ICT’s PTSD Treatment Featured in the New Yorker

May 12, 2008

This week’s New Yorker has a lengthy feature about ICT’s virtual reality PTSD treatment, with quotes and ancecdotes from ICT psychologist Skip Rizzo. The article also mentions ICT’s FlatWorld demo. Writer Sue Halpern visited ICT and several sites where the therapy is being tested. She reports that preliminary results are encouraging and that the virtual reality treatment may be more appealing and less stigmatizing than traditional talk therapy for soldiers seeking help.