%0 Journal Article
%T AVATAR therapy: a promising new approach for persistent distressing voices
%J Archive of "World Psychiatry".
%D 2019
%R 10.1002/wps.20589
%X AVATAR therapy was invented and first described by J. Leff and colleagues1. The therapy involves a three©\way conversation between therapist, patient and a digital simulation (ˇ°avatarˇ±) of one of his/her hallucinated voices. The avatar comprises a visual representation of the agent that the patient believes is responsible for the voice and uses a speech transformation software to change the therapist's voice into a close match of the vocal characteristics (e.g., tone and pitch) of the voice that the patient has chosen for the therapy
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6313224/