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                                      1988 - Therapy is fantasy: role-playing, healing, and the construction of symbolic order.
                                    
 
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Hughes, John (1988). Therapy is fantasy: role-playing, healing, and the construction of symbolic order. 
Australian National University honors paper in medical anthropology on the use of RPG in the self-treatment of clinical depression. 23 pages.
                                      
                                          
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                                      1999 - Through The Looking Glass:  An Exploration of the Interplay  between Player and Character Selves  in Role-Playing Games
                                    
 
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Author: Nicholas Yee. My main interest in RPG’s is in its interface with our individual personalities. I am interested in finding out how our personalities influence how we shape our characters or what we are trying to get out of the game. 
                                      
                                          
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                                      2004 - RPGR-A00001 An Overview of the History and Potential Therapeutic Value of Role-playing Gaming
                                    
 
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Role-playing gaming (RPGing) has its roots as far back as ancient history with the development of war-gaming. War-gaming is the simulation of combat strategies and tactics represented in reduced scale with various rules, often with some sort of randomizing agent such as dice or cards to add an element of “realistic” unpredictability. As long as there has been organized warfare, there appears to have been some form of war-gaming in every culture throughout history. Chess and the Chinese game Go both are very much based on war-gaming, but considered lacking by some because of the lack of unpredictability offered by “true” war-gaming using some degree of randomization.
The RPG Research Project Document ID #RPGR-A001-A-20120927A-CC
                                      
                                          
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                                      2007 - RPGR-A00002 The Potential Benefits and Deficits of Role-Playing Gaming
                                    
 
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by W.A. Hawkes-Robinson
Original Version April 10, 2007
Updated for Creative Commons September 27th, 2012.
RPG Research Project Document ID: #RPGR-A00002-D-20120927.CC
                                      
                                          
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                                      2008 - RPGR-A00003 - The Defamation of Role-playing Gaming and Gamers.
                                    
 
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By W.A. Hawkes-Robison
Original Version 2008-11-20
Version 2 2008-12-06
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Updated for Creative Commons License: 2012-09-29
                                      
                                          
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                                      2011 - RPGR-A00005 Analysis of the Report “Alienation and the Game Dungeons and Dragons”
                                    
 
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This is an analysis of the report "ALIENATION AND THE GAME DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS" by Lisa A. Derenard and Linda Mannik Kline. Psychological Report, 1990, 66, 1219-1222. O Psychological Reports 1990. The Analysis and commentary on the report is written by W.A. Hawkes-Robinson.
                                      
                                          
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                                      Amalgamation of News Coverage, Panels, Q&A, Hangouts, Broadcasts, Interviews, & Presentations on RPG Research Studies on the Effects of RPG, and RPG used for Therapy & Education by Hawke Robinson
                                    
 
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It has been a VERY busy 10 months. we have spoken at many conventions/conferences, sat on panels, provided presentations, been in live Q&A chat session, and had many interviews. All about the effects of role-playing games, and their use to achieve therapeutic and educational goals for many different populations. Here is a listing of all these in one location for your convenience...
                                      
                                          
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                                      An Overview History and Potential Therapeutic Value of Role Playing Gaming (2004)
                                    
 
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Originally written in 2004, and periodically tweaked over the years. After decades of using RPGs in educational settings, this was the paper that started the therapeutic focus and building of the RPG Research website. There are very few social table-top recreation activities available that are cooperative rather than competitive in nature. Role playing gaming is by design a cooperative past time, which in and of itself may have significant benefits in the world where everything is becoming competitive at all ages and levels of society...
                                      
                                          
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                                      Avista (Energy Company) Worker and RPG Research Discussion on RPG-based Professional Training
                                    
 
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I just had a surprising dialog with some Avista (my local power company) workers regarding role-playing games...
                                      
                                          
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                                      Christian Gamers Guild FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions by Christians about Role-playing Games 
                                    
 
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Cached from their website. Not affiliated with RPG Research in any way..."If you are Christian and concerned about Dungeons & Dragons (D&D), or other role-playing games, here is a very useful FAQ from the Christian Gamers Guild that will help address all your concerns. "
                                      
                                          
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