Curing the Wounds of Iraq with Virtual Therapy
Albert Rizzo uses virtual reality to free veterans of their PTSD - by letting
  them relive their trauma.
From: Discover Magazine - October 2008
By: Kathleen McAuliffe

Early on in the Iraq War, clinical psychologist Albert "Skip" Rizzo stumbled
upon the video game Full Spectrum Warrior and determined to make a
therapeutic tool out of it. Rizzo, a University of Southern California
professor who had designed virtual reality tools to measure attention
deficits in children, realized that thousands of soldiers would come back
from the Middle East with post-traumatic stress disorder. Since 2005 the
program he developed, Virtual Iraq, has had great success in treating the
returning troops. 

Read the entire article at:
http://discovermagazine.com/2008/oct/17-curing-the-wounds-of-iraq-with-virtual-therapy

Links:
Full Spectrum Warrior
http://www.fullspectrumwarrior.com/

Virtual Iraq
http://www.defense-update.com/products/v/VR-PTSD.htm

Virtual reality to train soldiers to handle pain
http://discovermagazine.com/2006/aug/14-bootcamp

Skip Rizzo
http://vrpsych.ict.usc.edu/people/rizzo.html