Comparison of methods

If we compare psychotherapy to the method of Dr. Tomatis, the main differences are the speed of obtaining certain results, their scope and the way of obtaining them. Each approach has complementary advantages and disadvantages, hence the interest in associating them.

Psychotherapy is primarily a rational and verbal approach that ultimately produces an impact on the irrational, the non-verbal, on the symptoms and behaviors that result from it by gradually modifying the subjective experience by readjusting the conceptions that we have of it. It allows us to re-appropriate our inner strength despite the difficulties. Psychotherapy extends over time since it is considered brief when it lasts "only" between 10 and 30 sessions. This represents 6 months of weekly appointments.

Audio-psycho-phonology is, on the contrary, an essentially non-rational and non-verbal approach to neurosensory and neurofunctional readjustment through individualized training supported under an electronic ear. This leads primarily to a change in emotional state, balance, listening to oneself and others, energy and motivation and then, in the long term, secondarily, within a psychotherapeutic follow-up, to more integrated and complete understandings of our experiences and our possibilities for development. The approach reintegrates us fairly quickly into our vitality and strength but it requires a fairly substantial investment of time at the beginning, either for the first session 24-30 hours or 12-15 sessions of 2 hours ideally every day (to finish in 3 weeks). This is a method to use if your condition has required a work stoppage because it helps to get back on your feet more quickly than psychotherapy.

With psychotherapy, over time, we increasingly feel that we are in control of the ins and outs of the complexities that determine us. Confidence returns, symptoms become manageable, management strategies are integrated and become unforgettable. It is a relatively slow process but one that frees up action and brings the personal satisfaction of better understanding what is happening to us and of better knowing how to direct our existence for more personal satisfaction, autonomy and meaning.

Audio-psycho-phonology allows you to feel better about yourself quite quickly. Well-being, energy, self-confidence return more quickly, although you don't really understand why or how. Unlike medication, unless you have studied the subject in depth, you don't really know what to attribute the changes that have occurred in you to, despite all the detailed explanations from the specialist.

The two approaches reinforce each other, they are synergistic. One acts more on the neurovegetative/emotional level and the other on the cognitive level.

Examples

For a speaker who panics before going on stage, or a young person paralyzed by shyness and who blushes when asked a question, it is possible to develop an understanding in psychotherapy that he is disturbed either by paralyzing perfectionism, or by relationships with a demanding parent, a thirst for acceptance, fear of criticism, an experience of shame linked to malicious mockery in childhood, etc. But if the speaker or the young person can, after certain psychotherapeutic interventions, reason with himself and succeed in expressing himself with apparent ease in public, it is the APP that will succeed in deactivating the nervousness he feels in his stomach and the trembling of his voice or knees at the time of the performance.

For a person exhausted due to personal, professional, family responsibilities or due to health problems or age, it is the APP that will give the brain back the energy, balance, listening to oneself and others, motivation, creativity, initiative, organizational, coordination, planning and discernment skills necessary to imagine viable solutions to the quagmire during psychotherapy sessions and then to successfully implement them. Without this very rapid energy recharge, the person in burnout bends over, becomes paralyzed, becomes depressed and then ends up having to stop working. Psychotherapy is useful but insufficient because it is too slow in the urgency of a solution, particularly for overworked executives and managers for whom any loss of enthusiasm or visible drug effect can be grounds for dismissal. The APP is an emergency intermediate solution between psychotherapy and medication which has the advantage of getting the mind going again relatively more quickly.

For a person who has suffered a trauma in a personal or professional context, as is the case for war workers or people who have survived domestic violence, if it is absolutely necessary to follow psychotherapy to treat these psychological wounds, it is sometimes very long to succeed in freeing speech or calming the fear as the defense mechanisms against the anxieties experienced have produced dissociations. PPA is then a very useful tool accelerating the appeasement, the release of buried emotions and especially reassociations. If EMDR acts in this sense visually, Tapping kinesthetically, PPA acts cochlearly and vestibularly.