Immersive Virtual Reality Environments as Psychoanalytic Settings: A Conceptual Framework for Modeling Unconscious Processes Through IoT-Based Bioengineering Interfaces.

ABSTRACT: Background: Immersive Virtual Reality (IVR) is gaining increasing relevance in the field of mental health as a tool for therapeutic simulation and embodied experience. However, most existing VR applications are grounded in cognitive-behavioral frameworks, leaving unexplored the integration of symbolic, intersubjective, and unconscious dimensions. Psychoanalysis-particularly its constructs of setting, rêverie, and transference-offers a unique epistemological basis for designing therapeutic environments that engage implicit emotional processes. Aim: This paper aims to develop a conceptual framework for modeling IVR-based therapeutic settings inspired by psychoanalytic theory and enhanced through IoT-enabled biosensing technologies. Methods/Approach: We propose a three-la

SUBMITTER: Romeo VM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12650620 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature