Adult robot book - Understanding and caring for the connected man - Cyberpsychology manual - Serge Tisseron, Frédéric Tordo - Dunod Hachette

Summary & Details

Cyberpsychology aims to understand the psychological processes involved when humans interact with technological tools, as well as their use in a clinical and therapeutic framework.
The first part of this manual presents the history of the discipline and its main concepts. The second part aims to understand the mental disorders that can result from the use of technologies, and provides tools to manage them. The third part presents the use of emerging technologies in psychotherapy. It explores the psychological processes that are deployed there and the new modalities of relationship between therapists and connected patients.
The book covers:
- Issues and perspectives in cyberpsychology and clinical cyberpsychology: history, concepts and influences of digital tools on mental life.
- Mental disorders associated with emerging technologies: cyberaddiction, cyberbullying, cybersexuality, hikikomori and patients connected to medical devices.
- Psychotherapies assisted by digital tools: video games, virtual reality, robots and online clinical practices.
The reader will find in this manual, designed to be easy to access and use, numerous examples, clinical inserts which illustrate theory and practice, and a summary at the end of each chapter.