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Robo -Psychotherapy 1- Introduction 2- psychological disorders in the modern world 3- Schizophrenia; symptoms and treatment methods 4- Social and emotional supports in treating schizophrenia 5- Advanced technologies in the modern world 6- The emergence of socio robotic and humanoid robots 7- Humanoid robots in psychiatric clinics 8- Conclusion

The treatments of psychological disorders are not just limited to taking medicine or drugs ,therefore doing psychiatric measures in clinics is vital for, not for treating psychological disorders, but also for recovering individuals with mental illnesses. The negative effects of psychological disorders have alienated many individuals with mental illnesses from their social networks, even from their family members and close friends since most people even family members do not know how to behave with patients with mental illnesses. One of the psychological disorders that have shaped the patient’s social and emotional conditions is schizophrenia. Individuals with schizophrenia have dreamy and unreal networks of friends in their mind, because of their hallucination, which has made them unable to distinguish the real world from the fantasy one. In the contemporary era with numerous technological advances, many researchers have struggled to find appropriate means that help people with psychological disorders to recover, for example the use of robots for treating children with altruism. This book is seeking the same goal, finding suitable ways by the aid of advanced technologies for treating people with schizophrenia. This book will investigate whether humanoid robots as one of advanced technologies can help individuals with schizophrenia to recover and strengthen their lack of social and emotional support. Besides interviewing with psychological scholars and researchers and socio robotic engineers on the functions of humanoid robots on treating psychological disorders, an empirical research have been done in one of Japanese and American psychiatric clinics to observe how is the reaction of individuals with schizophrenia with humanoid robots and to monitor whether these new technologies have had any effects on supporting schizophrenic people emotionally and socially.
 * 1- ****Introduction:**

In chapter two of the book, the common psychological disorders in the modern world, their causes, symptoms and best treatment methods have been analyzed. Moreover, a history of famous researchers on psychological disorders has been discussed in this chapter. In this chapter, the schizophrenia, its symptoms and medical and psychiatric treatment methods have been reviewed. In this chapter, a comparative study of the advantages and disadvantages of medical and psychiatric treatment methods have been analyzed based on the famous researches. In this chapter, the importance role of social and emotional supports by family member, friends and community members of the schizophrenia have been discussed. In addition, the deficiencies of schizophrenia people in making communication, the best communicative ways with schizophrenia have been also analyzed. To accomplish this objective, a series of famous research and studies have been analyzed in order to highlight the crucial role of emotional and social support in treating schizophrenia. In this chapter the emergence of advanced technologies and their roles on changing the scientific knowledge of medicine and psychology will be reviewed, that hoe these technologies have shifted dominant paradigms. The contents of this chapter are the emergence of the new field of socio robotic .In addition, the emergence of trends toward designing humanoid robots around the world, especially USA and Japan will be reviewed. The comparative study of these trends USA and Japan will show how socio robotic scholars and researchers have used robots especially humanoid and anthropomorphic ones in for medical and psychological needs. This chapter is the explanation of an empirical research done by the author in two USA and Japanese psychiatric clinics. In this observational research, the reactions, interactions and communications of schizophrenic patients with the humanoid robot, which is designed and programmed based on the needs of schizophrenic patients, in a short period of 6 month, will be reviewed in order to evaluate the changes in emotional and social conditions of schizophrenic patients. In this chapter, the roles of advanced technologies in changing the interrelations of humans and machines will be reviewed. Since some researchers believe that environmental conditions will cause or affect the schizophrenia so it means that the social conditions have affected this disease, therefore, we can claim that schizophrenia has been to some extent socially constructed .In this chapter, I will conclude how robots can change the social construction of some symptoms that are constructed by social factors.
 * 2- ****psychological disorders in the modern world**
 * 3- ****Schizophrenia; symptoms and treatment methods**
 * 4- ****Social and emotional supports in treating schizophrenia**
 * 5- ****Advanced technologies in the modern world**
 * 6- ****The emergence of socio robotic and humanoid robots**
 * 7- ****Humanoid robots in psychiatric clinics**
 * 8- ****Conclusion**