Title: Psychomotor re-education or movement treatment
Abstract: Movement is the way by which we learn about ourselves and the world, and by which the relationship is established between the personality of an individual and the environment in which he or she develops and exists. The movement we make or perceive in others and in things around us always defines a certain experience within ourselves that is recognized by means of consciousness. The perception, experience and conscious understanding are the basis of every cognitive act, which always comprises learning about oneself and learning about the other and learning about one’s own differentness at the same time. Movement, therefore, is a two-sided way in the function of experiencing oneself and the world and the basic factor of self-knowledge and cognitive processes on the whole which determine us as human beings. Psychomotor re-education or movement treatment appears in our modern world as a method that reveals to the child a clear experience of itself, the consciousness of itself as a person, and the experience and consciousness of its place in the world, enabling the child to be independent in life, in line with its age. With this in mind, psychomotor re-education is being placed more frequently among the psychotherapy techniques with its own distinctive theoretical interpretation and therapeutic aim. Movement is for psychomotor re-education what word is in psychotherapy conversation. When the therapists make a movement, or assign a movement for the child to repeat, they must always have in mind what curiosity led them to place that particular demand before the child and what experience they wanted to create in the subject they were working with. In the times we live in, we are faced with the demands of a series of developments achieved in various fields of science and direct professional experiences, the integration of which takes place by the very existence and knowledge of these developments among professionals. It seems that movement treatment will achieve such integration - psychotherapeutic efforts of the phaenomenological-existentialist psychotherapy and experiences of psychomotor re-education - merging into single therapy in the treatment of mental health problems in developmental age.
Publication Year: 2006
Publication Date: 2006-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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