The game of catharsis

Dr Aman Bhonsle is a 33-year-old relationship counsellor and TA (Transactional Analysis) trainer at the Heart to Heart Counselling Centre in Mumbai. He shares an anecdote about a client-couple who lamented that they had nothing in common. It was Bhonsle who suggested they try gaming. "They forged a friendship over it and still play together," Bhonsle tells us. For him, the love for gaming can be traced back to a time when he was a nine-year-old and his father gifted him an 8-bit gaming console. "I used to play a lot of games growing up in the '90s, and incidentally, when I bought my first PlayStation it wasn't PS1 or 2, but PS3," he recalls.