Serge Tisseron

Délégation Paris 7, Laboratoire de Biologie du Développement

Papers

Total Citations

H-Index

About

Serge Tisseron is a French psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and researcher whose work sits at the fascinating intersection of psychology, technology, and human relationships. His scholarship explores how individuals form psychological bonds with objects, digital environments, and increasingly, with robots and artificial intelligence. His most influential work, *Comment l'esprit vient aux objets* (2016, 55 citations), examines the profound and often unconscious emotional relationships humans develop with everyday objects, revealing how deeply our sense of self becomes entangled with the material world around us. This contribution bridges psychoanalytic theory and everyday experience in a remarkably accessible way. Tisseron has also made significant strides in understanding human-robot interaction, proposing a sophisticated four-dimensional, sixteen-item model for measuring empathy toward robots (2014, 22 citations) — a framework that has proven valuable as society grapples with questions of emotional attachment to artificial agents. More recently, his work in *Télépsychologie* (2022) reflects his commitment to cyberpsychology, investigating how digital tools reshape psychological processes and therapeutic practice. Across his career, Tisseron has established himself as a pioneering voice helping us understand what it means to be human in an increasingly technological world.