Well, I just picked up a 'Classics' version of Grim Fandango down here in New Zealand. Runs on XP and everything. Don't know why it seems to be here and nowhere else.
It is most certainly not psychiatry, moosey, and I wouldn't even consider it very good psychology.
I'm not a psychology professor, but I am a psychologist, and cash-ins like this are at best useless, and at worst could be quite dangerous. In most cases, they treat the symptoms and not the cause, leaving the subject no better off in the end. Useful if you are having a bad day, perhaps, but for someone suffering from depression looking for a quick solution (and they do), quite useless.
Video games can be very therapeutic and very beneficial, absolutely, but only when used in conjunction with professional help, not instead of.
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Feb 9th 2007 7:53PM (Joystiq)I'm not a psychology professor, but I am a psychologist, and cash-ins like this are at best useless, and at worst could be quite dangerous. In most cases, they treat the symptoms and not the cause, leaving the subject no better off in the end. Useful if you are having a bad day, perhaps, but for someone suffering from depression looking for a quick solution (and they do), quite useless.
Video games can be very therapeutic and very beneficial, absolutely, but only when used in conjunction with professional help, not instead of.
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