- Abstract:
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Background Persecutory delusions may be unfounded threat beliefs maintained by safety-seeking behaviours that prevent disconfirmatory evidence being successfully processed. Use of virtual reality could facilitate new learning. Aims To test the hypothesis that enabling patients to test the threat predictions of persecutory delusions in virtual reality social environments with the dropping of safety-seeking behaviours (virtual reality cognitive therapy) would lead to greater delusion reduction ...
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
- Version:
- Publisher's Version
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press Publisher's website
- Journal:
- British Journal of Psychiatry Journal website
- Volume:
- 209
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 62-67
- Publication date:
- 2016-07-01
- Acceptance date:
- 2015-12-16
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1472-1465
- ISSN:
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0007-1250
- Pubs id:
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pubs:619798
- URN:
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uri:ec2dea49-280d-4667-9767-b9ad0c046629
- UUID:
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uuid:ec2dea49-280d-4667-9767-b9ad0c046629
- Local pid:
- pubs:619798
- Language:
- English
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- Copyright holder:
- Royal College of Psychiatrists
- Copyright date:
- 2016
- Notes:
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COPYRIGHT: © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 2016 . This is an open
access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) licence.
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Virtual reality in the treatment of persecutory delusions: Randomised controlled experimental study testing how to reduce delusional conviction
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