Abstract
ABSTRACT This article discusses my practice work The Mental Abuse Matters VR Project; a live action narrative drama and Virtual Reality experience where the user is an embodied victim, experiencing an episode of emotional abuse in a domestic setting. Immersive sound is used to replicate emotions in the body such as shame, dread, anxiety, humiliation and panic in the user and to represent inner thoughts, memories and states of dissociation, with the goal of moving beyond language towards a visceral narrative. This is a prototype intervention that aims to be used as an empathy training tool for frontline Health and Social Care and Justice sector staff to improve trauma care, and potentially a therapeutic VR experience for victims and perpetrators of mental abuse. The article aims to discuss the development, creative practice and planned dissemination of this pilot VR experience, evaluating it in the context of traditional study methods and existing health and social care interventions in VR.
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