Up Arrow - Click to go forwardTender Loving Care
CD & DVD-ROM Manual
Credits
Copyright 1997 Aftermath Media
Hardware Requirements
To run Tender Loving Care, your computer should meet the following minimum hardware and software configuration:
For DVD-ROM:
For CD-ROM:
Recommended options:
Installing Tender Loving Care
To begin installation, place the Tender Loving Care disc in your CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive.
When installation is complete, a prompt offers to launch TLC for you. Click OK to start the program.
Uninstalling TLC
To uninstall TLC from your hard disk, place the TLC disc in your CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive.
The Welcome Screen
This is the first screen that appears when you install or launch TLC. It offers you these options:
To accept the default setup, just leave the Change Setup line alone.
The Change Setup command is not available in the DVD version.
Signing In
The Sign In screen is where you check in to begin your TLC experience.
When exiting the program, the status of each patient is saved automatically.
Tender Loving Care
You are about to experience a computer fantasy quite unlike anything you've ever seen or felt before- a fantasy built from the very stuff of your own mind. Tender Loving Care is not just a finely crafted suspense story; it's an exploration into your innermost perceptions, opinions, and attitudes. The unfolding story is shaped and changed by your responses to it, so that no two people will experience Tender Loving Care in exactly the same way.
From the moment you enter the world of Michael and Allison Overton, your interactions with Tender Loving Care follow a four-phase cycle that repeats many times as the experience progresses:
1. Story Segment - In the first phase, you'll view a segment of the story, in which you gather information about the disturbing secrets being kept in the Overton household. These story segments are generally 5 - 10 minutes long.
2. Exit Polls - After the story segment ends, you'll have the opportunity to chat with Dr. Cecil Turner of the Chrysalis Institute. Dr. Turner will conduct a sort of "exit poll" in which he'll ask you several questions about what you've just seen. Some of the questions are quite personal and intimate; please be assured that your answers are confidential, and try to answer as honestly as you can.
3. Exploration - When Dr. Turner has finished interviewing you, you are free to wander the Overton home and grounds, and search for information that might help you unravel the mysterious web of events that is strangling this family. Nothing is out-of-bounds to you during your explorations: feel free to read any books or diaries, or to listen to or watch any taped media you may find. You may also encounter members of the household one-on-one, and learn more about their private thoughts and feelings. You can take as long as you like, or skip this phase entirely: this step is completely optional, and you can choose not to pry into the Overtons' private lives this way if you prefer.
4. TATs and Return to Story - When you have finished your explorations and you feel you are ready to return to the story, you must go to the object that contains the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) - the same kind of test described by Dr. Turner on the previous page. The TATs used in Tender Loving Care were developed with the assistance of Dr. David Oas, a professor of clinical psychology at Southern Oregon University.
These tests are designed to uncover your unique style of thinking and feeling, as well as your motivations and desires. While Aftermath cannot accept any medical or legal responsibility for the results of these tests, their design is based on three decades of clinical research. Again, please be as honest as you can: your responses to the TAT, and to the questions Dr. Turner asked you earlier, determine the direction the story will take in the next cycle.
At the end of each cycle, you'll have an opportunity to glimpse Dr. Turner's clinical notes, in which he records his thoughts and observations about you. Though you may feel uncomfortable, shocked, or a bit disturbed by his perceptions, we urge you to keep your mind open wide- and your imagination open even wider.
When you have completed the entire Tender Loving Care experience, you will have created your own unique version of the story, based on your own perceptions and feelings. You can replay this version any time you like. Or, you might return to the beginning and create a new story - perhaps working with a close friend or intimate partner.
Getting Around
You navigate through the Overton household - and the Tender Loving Care experience - by manipulating a variety of on-screen icons. This section is a directory of the icons you'll encounter as you move through your TLC sessions.
Up Arrow - Click to go forward
Back Arrow - This icon appears whenever you move the cursor into the screen’s Bottom Shelf (the black band below the video display area). Click to back away from your current position or to turn 180 degrees.
Side Arrows - Click to turn 90 degrees right or left. When side arrows appear in books or magazines, click the right arrow to page forward, and the left arrow to page back.
Magnifying Glass - There's something interesting here. Come take a closer look.
Selection Arrow - Click to select answers to questions, or to use the objects activated by the Magnifying Glass
Swirling Spiral - Click here to take a Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
Null - The cursor becomes a null sign when it rests on anything that doesn't bear further examination.
Butterfly - This icon appears when you move the cursor to the Top Shelf (the black band above the video display area). Click any time to move to the Reality Check screen.
NOTE: To interrupt any video or audio sequence at any time, click the right mouse button. For the DVD version, press the Space Bar.
Finding the TAT
In addition to your responses to the Exit Polls, your answers to the Thematic Apperception Tests offered by Dr. Turner at the end of each story cycle determine how your personal version of the TLC story will unfold. The location of the test changes with every cycle, and is indicated by a Swirling Spiral icon. When you have finished your wanderings for this cycle, and are ready to move on, there are three ways to find the test.
Reality Check
Everybody needs a good reality check now and then - and especially after they've been guests of the Overtons for a while. When it's time to get your emotional and intellectual bearings, move the cursor to the screen's Top Shelf (the black band above the video display area), and click the Butterfly icon that appears. This takes you to the Reality Check screen, which includes these features and options:
Triple Forward and Back Arrows - Click these to step backward or forward through the 16 snapshots until you find the episode you want to view. (You can't view episodes you haven't already seen.)
Double Forward and Back Arrows - Once you've found the episode you want to review, use these arrows to step backward or forward through the various scenes within the episode. Again, these arrows only work with episodes you've already seen.
Single Forward Arrow - This is the video "play" button. Click it to replay the video of the episode currently displayed in the snapshot picture. When the video ends, you will return to the Reality Check screen.
When you've completed the entire TLC experience, a new snapshot appears. Click the Single Forward Arrow on this 17th snapshot to replay the entire, unique movie you've created through your responses to Dr. Turner's questions. You can watch this movie over and over, as often as you like, until your patient file is overwritten.
To interrupt this replay, click the right mouse button. To begin again, use the arrows on the player to return to the place you left off, and press the Play button (Single Forward Arrow) to resume.
The Virtual TAT
An Interview with Cecil Turner, M.D., Ph.D.
From MODERN PSYCHOLOGY:
A Journal of Thought for the New Millennium
MODERN PSYCHOLOGY: You've always been on the cutting edge of psychiatric treatment. I remember in the sixties, you were one of the first medical doctors to seriously study Eastern Mysticism and try to utilize meditation and holistic medicine in your therapy.
CECIL TURNER: Yes. As a child I was always fascinated by the mysticism. In college, I became an avid reader of Hermann Hesse. His books, especially Journey To The East, inspired me to go to India and study with a yoga teacher.
MP: Your peers must have thought you were a little crazy.
CT: (laughs) Let's just say they made a lot of curry jokes.
MP: And now you're into the Internet.
CT: Yes. I've always been interested in computers. Always knew they would have a huge impact on our world society.
MP: You've got a great Web page for your Institute.
CT: It's a fantastic forum, the Web. A great way to get to share one's ideas.
MP: Do you have online patients?
CT: Not yet. (laughs) But now there are these things called Synthespians - synthetic actors. I wouldn't be surprised if someday there were synthetic psychiatrists.
MP: Pseudo-psychiatrists?
CT: (raises his eyebrows) Oh, I've known dozens of them already.
MP: So tell me about this new project you're working on.
CT: The Virtual TAT?
MP: Yes.
CT: Well, the original TAT or Thematic Apperception Test was invented in the mid-thirties by Morgan and Murray. It was called "A Method For Investigating Fantasy." A method for eliciting story constructions from patients which are susceptible to interpretation by the psychiatrist.
MP: Whoaa. Could I have the layman's version of that?
CT: Terribly sorry. The patient is shown an image and asked to tell a story based on what he sees.MP: How is this different from a Rorschach test?
CT: Oh, it's very different. With a Rorschach, the patient is asked to describe what he or she sees. "I see a rat. I see the devil. My mother." Et cetera, ad nauseum. But with a TAT, they are asked to tell a tale. The TAT is much richer. Much deeper. The responses are more intricate.
MP: I remember a famous TAT image. A child playing a violin?
CT: Yes. Good example. A drawing of a little boy with a violin. A Rorschach response for this image would be the same for everyone: "I see a little boy with a violin." That's it. There is nothing more. But the TAT responses are extraordinarily different and compelling. For example, "The boy is sad. He wishes he could play baseball with the other kids," or "The boy loves daydreaming about being a concert violinist," or even "The boy hates his mother for making him play the violin." Very telling, that response.
MP: Why is storytelling so important?
CT: We tell stories to ourselves every day. When we drift off into daydreams or fantasies, we are living out little plays in our minds, with ourselves as the protagonists, or heroes. Simply put, the TAT is a brilliant way of finding out what people are thinking on an unconscious level. How they view the world. How they see themselves in this world. And that is how we gain insight in treating the many ills which plague the human mind.
MP: So what is the Virtual TAT?
CT: The Virtual TAT, or V TAT (computer people love acronyms) is something that I am developing. I'm also working to integrate it into a CD-ROM experience with a company here in the Rogue Valley. It's a way people can experiment with a version of the Thematic Apperception Test in their own homes, while exploring the delta between reality and desire. It's the kind of thing you'd share with someone you'd like to make love to.
MP: It sounds fascinating.
CT: It's also quite entertaining.
MP: Entertaining?
CT: Psychiatrists have made the study of the mind boring. But it doesn't have to be that way.
MP: How about a video game where you get to act out your most secret fantasies?
CT: (laughs) We're working on it.
About Our Website
An Internet connection is recommended so you can gain access to Aftermath's website, which includes a special section dedicated to players of Tender Loving Care. You'll find out more about how TLC was created, and find product updates and fascinating information about the TLC experience. Come check it out at www.aftermathmedia.com.
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