PMID- 36300056
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
LR  - 20221028
IS  - 1664-1078 (Print)
IS  - 1664-1078 (Electronic)
IS  - 1664-1078 (Linking)
VI  - 13
DP  - 2022
TI  - Metaverse as a possible tool for reshaping schema modes in treating personality 
      disorders.
PG  - 1010971
LID - 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1010971 [doi]
LID - 1010971
AB  - Personality disorders (PD) are usually treated with face-to-face sessions and/or 
      digital mental health services. Among many schools of therapies, schema therapy 
      stands out because rather than simply targeting the symptoms of PD, it cordially 
      targets the cause of PD and heals the early maladaptive schema, thus is 
      exceptionally good at soothing emotional disturbances before enacting cognitive 
      restructuring, resulting in long-term efficacy. However, according to Piaget's 
      genetic epistemology, the unmet needs lie in the fact that the schemata that 
      determine the adaptive behavior can only be formed in the interaction with the 
      real world that the patient is living in and reconsolidated by the feedback from 
      the object world upon the patient's newly-formed behavior. Therefore, in order to 
      reshape the patient's schema modes to support adaptive behavior and regain 
      emotional regulation capabilities of the healthy adult, one may have to 
      reconstruct the object world surrounding the patient. Metaverse, the bestowed 
      successor to the Internet with the cardinal feature of "the sense of full 
      presence," can become a powerful tool to reconstruct a new object world for the 
      patient with the prescription of a psychotherapist, so as to transform the 
      treatment techniques in schema therapy into the natural autobiographical 
      experiences of patients in the new object world, thus gradually reshape the 
      patient's schema modes that can ultimately result in an adaptive, and more 
      inclusive, interaction with the real world. This work describes the underlying 
      theory, the mechanism, the process, and ethical considerations of such promising 
      technology for the not-too-far future.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2022 Yin, Wang, Fei and Jiang.
FAU - Yin, Bin
AU  - Yin B
AD  - Laboratory for Learning and Behavioral Sciences, School of Psychology, Fujian 
      Normal University, Fuzhou, Fujian, China.
AD  - Department of Applied Psychology, School of Psychology, Fujian Normal University, 
      Fuzhou, Fujian, China.
FAU - Wang, Ya-Xin
AU  - Wang YX
AD  - Laboratory for Learning and Behavioral Sciences, School of Psychology, Fujian 
      Normal University, Fuzhou, Fujian, China.
FAU - Fei, Cheng-Yang
AU  - Fei CY
AD  - Laboratory for Learning and Behavioral Sciences, School of Psychology, Fujian 
      Normal University, Fuzhou, Fujian, China.
FAU - Jiang, Ke
AU  - Jiang K
AD  - School of Mental Health, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20221010
PL  - Switzerland
TA  - Front Psychol
JT  - Frontiers in psychology
JID - 101550902
PMC - PMC9588976
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Piaget
OT  - digital mental health services
OT  - experience setting
OT  - genetic epistemology
OT  - mental health care
OT  - metaverse
OT  - personality disorders
OT  - schema therapy
COIS- The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any 
      commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential 
      conflict of interest.
EDAT- 2022/10/28 06:00
MHDA- 2022/10/28 06:01
PMCR- 2022/10/10
CRDT- 2022/10/27 02:41
PHST- 2022/08/03 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2022/09/23 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2022/10/27 02:41 [entrez]
PHST- 2022/10/28 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2022/10/28 06:01 [medline]
PHST- 2022/10/10 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1010971 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - Front Psychol. 2022 Oct 10;13:1010971. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1010971. 
      eCollection 2022.