Live At The Cooney Center: “Improving Our Aim: A Psychotherapist’s Take On...
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View ArticleContinuing Education From Pax East
For those of you who may not know, Pax East is a yearly convention here in Boston celebrating all things video game. This year I was so fortunate to have the opportunity to present there on “Rethinking...
View ArticleWant To Help Stop Youth Cyberbullying? Let Your Kids Raid More.
The above title is misleading. In fact it is as misleading as the term cyberbullying, which is an umbrella term used from experiences which range drastically. ”Cyberbullying” has been used to...
View ArticleEmpathy (Re)Training
Last night I was mining Gold Omber in the asteroid belt near Erindur VI, and I can’t begin to tell you what an accomplishment that was. (This post is not just about spaceships, but about pacifists,...
View ArticleBad Object Rising: How We Learn to Hate Our Educated Selves
Recently I had the opportunity to work with a great set of educators in a daylong seminar. One of the things I do with teachers when I present is have them play Minecraft. In this case I started off...
View ArticleDopey About Dopamine: Video Games, Drugs, & Addiction
GamerTherapist blog is on vacation and will return with new posts after Labor Day. In the meantime, here is a reader favorite: Last week I was speaking to a colleague whose partner is a gamer. She was...
View ArticleInnovation is Dangerous & Gaming Causes Asperger’s
GamerTherapist blog is on vacation and will return with new posts after Labor Day. In the meantime, here is a reader favorite: At its heart, diagnosis is about exerting control. Clinicians want to...
View ArticleEvocation and Mindfulness: Or, How to Think Better
Like other art forms, video games can be both a mirror and a candle held up to our culture, at times reflecting it and at times revealing things about it. Normally I direct my posts primarily at...
View ArticleBringing Emerging Technology into the Clinical Process: Implications for...
If you have ever wondered how to begin attending to, listening for, and asking questions about a patient’s use of technology, this video might give you some ideas. In it my colleague Lesa Fichte,...
View ArticleGamer-Affirmative Practice: Today’s Play Therapy
The importance of play is universal, and in many ways the nature of play is timeless. That said, there is a lot to learn about video games as 21st-century play, especially if you are a play therapist....
View ArticleUsing Gaming & Gamification in Clinical Practice
What does “gamification” mean, and what is its relevance to mental health practice? In this video of a conversation I had at University at Buffalo with Charles Syms, I take a stab at answering those...
View ArticleHeroes
This post is more personal than some, but then at some time in many of our lives cancer gets personal. As many of you know, I have a companion and co-therapist named Boo. For the past 12 years Miss...
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