Iconoclastic psychoanalyst Wilfred Bion described the process in metabolic terms, asserting that the therapist’s job was to transform the raw, unnamed aspects of the client’s experience into more “digestible” forms, converting the unthinkable to the thinkable.Īction, Bion argued, was antithetical to thought, as it resolved emotional tensions without symbolizing them.

Therapy, on the other hand, is not about the generation of actions but of thoughts. Games are inherently behavioral: we use our bodies to manipulate a controller or keyboard or touchscreen, and some corresponding action takes place in virtual space. Psychotherapy is rarely portrayed in videogames, which shouldn’t be surprising. Lara and I were quickly separated from the others and trapped in the icy wasteland. So we pressed on and, unsurprising to either of us (even if she had not wanted to consciously admit it), the Siberian expedition did not go as planned. Lara was singularly focused to attempt to steer her away from the harrowing mountain top would have led nowhere. The constant fear of death watching her friends die being forced to kill others to survive witnessing supernatural phenomena previously assumed to be impossible-all these would be transformed into meaningful character-building exercises, rather than cruelties with which she had to live. In Lara’s mind, this was the way to make everything coherent again: if she could endure this new adventure, then surely it would reframe the horrors she suffered two years ago. Surely it would reframe the horrors she suffered two years ago

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