Act, Play, Think
"Act, Play, Think" is Bernard Aucouturier's last book. It includes the fundamental views of the author regarding the way in which sensory pleasure, movement and games contribute to gaining confidence and relieving the anxieties and discomfort of the child, calming their inner fears, improving the development of symbolic function, fostering the development of mental representation, and helping better understanding of emotions. It offers an in-depth explanation of the child's psyche from their birth on, and appropriate child support mechanisms.
Bernard Aucouturier
Professor Bernard Aucouturier had a gift, a special capability to connect with children. During his whole career he showed a great sagacity to observe the infant behaviour, and an outstanding feeling to the kid who suffers and show his discomfort expecting for someone to understand him. This gift took him to investigate the deepest meaning of the infant psychomotor expressivity whose origin is in the oldest stages of the life.
The innovation of this methodology is to use the action, the pleasure and the relationship the central idea for the kid´s evolution and maturing. Bernard Aucouturier has been the only one to translate into conduct principles several concepts from Piaget, Freud and specially Winnicott. These concepts explain the body roots of the psychological birth and the intelligence and they are the main addition to the therapy and the psychomotor education field. Professor Aucouturier was a pioneer as his intuition transformed into practical a concept that neurosciences are discovering now.
The Aucouturier Psychomotor Practice was born from the experience, it is something fresh and dynamics and it has been built from a very strong theoretical-practical basis. Psychomotor classes around the world are full of malleable and coloured foam rubber modules, other great addition of prof. Aucouturier.
