Chevallier- Faustino
Psychology
Psychotherapies
Audio-Psycho-Phonology
When to use what
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.
"Audio-psycho-phonology psychotherapy" which could also be called "audio-psycho-phonological psychotherapy" refers to the association of the certified psychotherapy approach with the psycho-sensory training of Dr. Alfred Tomatis, for the purposes of psychological purposes and growth only, excluding speech therapy or other purposes belonging to other specialties.
Associating methods means respecting the following four elements simultaneously:
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Regular psychotherapy meetings based on achieving the patient/client's goals
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A neurosensory training under the psychologist's supervision, based on results of regular listening tests.
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A training following the original guidelines given by Dr Alfred Tomatis, consisting of 90 to 120mn training sessions in suitable premises, for up to a total of 48 to 60 hours. It is done in three compact rounds, with analog equipment (best adjusted to brain functioning caracteristics).
This association facilitates more adjusted listening and verbalizing, two capacities which are crucial to the outcome of psychotherapy. The overall effects of the Dr Tomatis method ((emotional calming, reassociation of the functions of the inner ear (vestibule and cochlea) with vision, development of the synergistic functioning of the brain (right and left, cognitive and emotional), return of cerebral energy)) lead towards enhanced introspection, confidence, assertivity, initiative and creativity in the search for solutions, hence enhanced psychotherapy results.
When used within the context of a psychotherapy, Dr. Tomatis' method contributes to resolving psychological difficulties. Undetected handicaps of listening to oneself and others, plus narratives constructed on the basis of misunderstandings are the roots of many personal and interpersonal problems. However, without psychotherapy, there is little room for understanding, bouncing back, developing, and anchoring the unconscious changes the Dr Tomatis method produces. The reduction of symptoms and other psychological benefits will be better understood if regularly assessed with listening tests as well as explained by the psychologist.
Psychotherapy follow-up is particularly important in cases where clients/patients presents symptoms of dissociation, when there is a suspicion of trauma. Dr. Tomatis' method has been shown to bring back to the surface the memory of repressed events sometimes several months after the end of the neurosensory training, allowing for their resolution. In the case of chronic complex problematic situations, the method frees speech. However, without the space for reflection provided by the psychotherapeutic setting, the changes generated by the method - such as those described below - end up being ephemeral.
Associating methods allows to stabilize and anchor the following effects:
ENERGY
… through improved listening with both ears to the high frequencies that stimulate the brain and through improved brain integration of this data. This allows the person to regain their creativity, their capacity for initiative, their interest in their life and their surroundings, their vital impulse.
BALANCE
... by improving and balancing the listening by both ears of the low frequencies that stimulate movement; by improving the integration of vestibular and cochlear data; by improving the cerebral integration of this data with that of muscle tone... This allows the person to regain control of their body and improve their body schema, improve their posture and coordination, the fluidity and speed of their movements, their motor efficiency, their anchoring, their sense of security, with a reduced risk of falls and accidents, better organization and planning of tasks...
CALMNESS & LISTENING POSTURE
...through soothing and joyful sound materials, transmitted via the bone directly to the inner ear and the emotional brain; through the use of latency times between C2 to C1 switches via bone and eardrum which gives the individual the opportunity to adopt a "listening position" and gradually stop being in a "fight and flight" mode. It leads towards disminished anxiety, shyness, internal tensions and better control of emotionality.
ATTENTION & EXPRESSION
...thanks to the gymnastics of the middle ear musculature produced by the electronic ear, auditory perception through the tympanic membrane improves. One has the impression of hearing and listening better...
...thanks to the work of the integrators between the parts of the brain that process the understanding of spoken language and the understanding of non-verbal aspects of communication (melody, rhythm, volume, timbre, context, background noise), attentive listening and empathy improve, we have the impression of understanding better...
...thanks to the work of the integrators between the parts of the brain that deal with spoken language and those that deal with listening to oneself and others, oral expression becomes more adapted and dialogue becomes possible... This allows not only exchange with others, but also self-control and integration within a group or team... not to mention the ability to pronounce correctly, to verbalize ideas fluently, to know a varied vocabulary, to use correct grammatical constructions, to sing in tune...
ASSIMILATION, INTEGRATION, ORGANIZATION & PLANNING
... The ability to connect all sensations together, images, sounds, kinesthetic sensations, emotions, depends on the integrated gaze and listening, which is the basis of learning through experience and the basis of the development of intelligence. The ability to connect symbols to sounds and to correctly memorize these relationships also depends on this, which is the basis of learning to read, spell and calculate. This integration also allows us to correctly understand the location of the moving body in space as a function of time, which is the basis of organization and planning.
SYNCHRONIZATION
... Looking and listening are intentional activities that reflect the integration at the cortex level of sensory data obtained about others and the surrounding environment by the right and left eye and ear with information from the body (pain, injuries, infections, inflammations) and the psyche (interests, emotions, needs). The functioning, development, learning, self-control, well-being and relationships with others will depend on the quality of this brain integration, in short, team play, the synchronization of the individual with his environment, with his loved ones.
DISCERNMENT, UNDERSTANDING, IMAGINATION, CREATION
... Some very complex realities require a great deal of insight, tenacity in observation and logic at the time of interpretation. Audio-psycho-phonological therapy acts directly on the brain. By inducing development at all levels, it eliminates what involuntarily holds us back and in doing so, it frees intelligence, discernment, imagination and creativity.
