Initial development of perpetrator confrontation using deepfake technology in victims with sexual violence-related PTSD and moral injury.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Interventions aimed at easing negative moral (social) emotions and restoring social bonds - such as amend-making and forgiving-have a prominent role in the treatment of moral injury. As real-life contact between persons involved in prior morally injurious situations is not always possible or desirable, virtual reality may offer opportunities for such interventions in a safe and focused way.

Objective

To explore the effects of the use of deepfake technology in the treatment of patients suffering from PTSD and moral injury as a result of being forced by persons in authority to undergo and commit sexual violence (so-called betrayal trauma).

Methods

Two women who had experienced sexual violence underwent one session of confrontation with the perpetrator

SUBMITTER: van Minnen A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9435301 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature