4 questions- Sue Halpern’s Virtual Iraq

1.What data does Sue Halpern draw on?
-Halpern uses statistical information such as: “multiple tours inadequate time at home between -deployment increases rates of combat stress by 50%” (118).
-Halpern uses the personal experience she had with Vitrual Iraq.
-Uses information from Alfred Rizzo, inventor of Virtual Iraq- “Of the five subjects who had completed treatment, four no longer met the diagnostic criteria for PTSD” (125).
-Uses information from Karen Pearlman a psychologist who uses Virtual Iraq-“so far eight of the nine patients she has treated no longer meet the criteria for PTSD” (127).

2.Active Verbs
“Decompress from combat” (117)
“Hook you up to a machine to play around like a video game. (120)
“Insurgents just pop up” (124).
“Slipped on the display and the headphones”(126).
“Car burst into flames” (126).
3.Figuration
“Patrolled the streets like police.” (117)
“Psychological wounds”(118)
“Ground pounders” (118)
“Drowning pool of painful memories” (119)
“Just sniffing around the internet” (122).
“We applied for money and we got nuked”(122)
“You’d never do what I just did-you’d never flood them.” (127)
4. Portable Wisdom
“Because numbing and avoidance are symptoms of PTSD, you’re asking the person to do in treatment the very thing their mind is avoiding doing” (120).
“Virtual reality can nudge an imagination that is at once overactive and repressed.”(120)