VRx: How Virtual Therapeutics Will Revolutionize Medicine

VRx: How Virtual Therapeutics Will Revolutionize Medicine

by Brennan Spiegel
VRx: How Virtual Therapeutics Will Revolutionize Medicine

VRx: How Virtual Therapeutics Will Revolutionize Medicine

by Brennan Spiegel

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Overview

A leading doctor unveils the groundbreaking potential of virtual medicine.


Brennan Spiegel has spent years studying the medical power of the mind, and in VRx he reveals a revolutionary new kind of care: virtual medicine. It offers the possibility of treating illnesses without solely relying on intrusive surgeries or addictive opioids.


Virtual medicine works by convincing your body that it's somewhere, or something, it isn't. It's affordable, widely available, and has already proved effective against everything from burn injuries to stroke to PTSD. Spiegel shows how a simple VR headset lets a patient with schizophrenia confront the demon in his head, how dementia patients regain function in a life-size virtual town, and how vivid simulations of patients' experiences are making doctors more empathic.


VRx is a revelatory account of the connection between our bodies and ourselves. In an age of overmedication and depersonalized care, it offers no less than a new way to heal.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781541699762
Publisher: Basic Books
Publication date: 10/06/2020
Pages: 304
Sales rank: 1,086,803
Product dimensions: 6.30(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Brennan Spiegel is director of health-services research at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where he directs the Center for Outcomes Research and Education, which maintains one of the largest and most widely cited therapeutic virtual reality programs in the world. Spiegel is also professor of medicine and public health at UCLA. He lives in Los Angeles, California.

Table of Contents

Author's Note ix

Introduction: A Leap of Faith 1

Part I Our Bodies, Our Selves

Chapter 1 The Second Time I Died 13

Chapter 2 The Self Blends 35

Chapter 3 Creating a Distraction 59

Chapter 4 Becoming Whole 83

Chapter 5 Mind the Gap 99

Part II Virtual Medicine

Chapter 6 The Virtualist 119

Chapter 7 Fighting the Opioid Epidemic 139

Chapter 8 Primum Non Nocere 163

Chapter 9 The VR Pharmacy 187

Part III Brave New World

Chapter 10 The Empathy Machine 213

Chapter 11 Through the Looking Glass 225

Acknowledgments 249

Notes and References 253

Index 279

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