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PREFACE

This book addresses a new branch in psychology called Cyberpsychology, which shows how there has been a change in the person-technology relationship, analyzing how new developments affect the day-to-day life of a person, as well as the mental health of its users. All this backed by an extensive bibliography on the latest research conducted in this area.

Social networks, the Internet and all the technological advances of recent years have changed the way we see the world and behave, a change in many cases radical, which cannot go unnoticed to Psychology majors, the science that studies human behavior.

The invention and use of tools such as the hatchet or the needle, first, and then machines such as the car or the computer, have subsequently revolutionized the way of relating to oneself and others.

To speak with a family member or a friend it is as simple as connecting persons that wish to communicate via Skype regardless of location. The technological advances that happened in this last decades has been so fast that it forced people to adapt so they can take advantage of this evolving technology. In this book it addresses how change has been produced and how it affects the day- to-day developments of the person just as in the mental health of its users. All this endorsed by an extensive bibliography about the latest studies conducted on this scope.

Objective:

The objective of the book will serve as a first approach to the up and coming branch of psychology known as Cyberpsychology.

So, it treats the most relevant topics offering results of the latest studies conducted this past two years across the globe about this subject.

All this explained with simple and easy to read language, away from technical terms explaining each concept so it can truly work as an initiation guide.

Addressee:

- Professionals in health that have to confront a more complex clinics because of provoked cases that addresses the use and abuse of the internet and new technologies.

- Professors that are trying to be up to date about the changes they observe in their students.

- A worried father about the benefits and prejudice that new technologies might have on the lives of their children.

- To any person that is interested in knowing how technology is influencing in modern society, transforming the way which it relates.

Theme

Up next, every main chapter of this work will be themed:

- The Risks of the Internet: Where we analyze every new phenomena, syndrome and disorder related with technology, that every day it becomes more present inside clinics.

- Network Opportunities: Tackling how it changes social relationships, and especially work relationships and how we have to be prepared for it.

- Digital Identity and Virtual Words: Where we approach how we interact in a virtual world, that sometimes we can see as a stranger the people that we know, but where they don’t behave as they do in the real world, all this presented from the perspective of the latest results from obtained studies all around the world.

- The Psychology of Social Networks: The most popular networks such as Facebook and Twitter, have been the source of information that are starting to be analyzed by investigators in this section where we offer the first results of this novel studies.

- Psychotechnology: Where we design and implement new tools orientated to improve the diagnostic as well as the treatment of different psychopathologies. Where we include the use of robotics and online therapy among others.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

I will take advantage of the situation and begin to express my gratitude to all the people that collaborated with their contribution to the realization of this text, especially to Dr. David Lavilla Muñoz, Professor of Digital Communication and new Tendencies of the European University and to Dr. Daniela Galindo Bermúdez, President of, ‘’Talking with Julis’’: The solution for communication and apprenticeship of people with disabilities.