Links for this Post: Scientific Research Backed Online Game MindHabit Boosts Self-Confidence While Lowering Your Stress -- Free Demo
We have reviewed a variety of online and desktop applications on the Mindware Review through our nearly 5 years of publication. Among them, there has been a few that aim at self-help and personal development, the kinds of things that people used to go to psychotherapists to help them with.
I predicted computer-aided self long ago in the first edition of the now historical Mindware Catalog published in 1988. Is it really twenty years ago since I wrote these words (years later I put them on the Mind Media website, one of the first sites on the World Wide Web..:
The world of personal computers is witnessing the arrival of a new genre of software-software vastly different from the familiar word processors, spreadsheets, databases and games. We call these new programs "mindware" instead of crunching numbers or crafting words, these "mind-appliances" help us to think better, feel better and be more creative. Mindware was conceived and created to be more than just a business we sincerely believe that all of us can benefit from a synthesis of psychology and technology. It is our goal to serve as the central source for these revolutionary mind-appliances-to put the transformational technologies of mindware to work for you!
The early history of computer-aided self help included an artificial intelligence simulation of a Rogerian psychotherapist named Eliza (see Wikipedia for much more about Eliza) and Stanford Professor Thomas Colby and his son Peter Colby's program, Overcoming Depression. Self Help Express an amazing collection of online self-help programs.
In April of 2006, I featured Play "Grow Your Chi" Free Self-esteem Game Developed by McGill University Psychology Researchers. Grow Your Chi and another program on the same site called Matrix have been developed, upgraded, perfected and combined with a variety of other self-help games into MindHabits, a breakthrough self-help and personal development toolkit which can be used used onlne or downloaded as a Windows software.
You can find out more about the new MindHabits software and online application here. I will review MindHabits more extensively in the post immediately following this one.
