Using avatars in psychosis therapy can help those who hear voices, study finds

Therapy involves patients talking with animated digital representations of voices they hear

You tried to tell yourself I wasn't real': what happens when people with acute psychosis meet the voices in their heads?

Digital characters - avatars - could help people with psychosis hear voices less often and reduce the distress caused, research suggests.

The therapy involves a series of guided sessions during which patients are able to have a conversation with an animated digital representation of their distressing voice.