Trigger Happy
Nov 04, 2021
3 minutes
STEVEN POOLE
he idea that play can have a profound effect on the psyche of the player, for good or ill, is very old. The philosopher Plato wrestled at the Isthmian Games (part of the ancient Olympic cycle), and suggested, radically for the time, that children’s games could be educational. Modern research suggests that playing videogames such as soon after a traumatic event might help to prevent the memories being laid down in such a way as to give rise, explicitly presented as therapeutic devices.
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