A little while back I was playing Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare with one of my patients, we’ll call him Alex*. Twenty minutes into our game, I was clearly losing badly and dying a lot. Although I am a gamer-affirmative therapist, first-person shooters have never been a favorite of mine. …
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