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Foreword by Léna Tomatis
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Preface by Don Campbell |
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Part I |
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THE
SOUNDS OF WELLNESS |
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Introduction |
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Part II
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A LITTLE COURSE ABOUT OUR EARS |
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hearing and listening
The Role of Our Ears
The Evolution of the
Ear
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Do Fish have Ears?
The Long Road toward Verticality
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How Do We Hear? |
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The External Ear
The Middle ear
The Inner Ear
Air and Bone Conduction
Skin and Hearing
The
Human Antenna
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Energy through the
Ears? |
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Charging Sounds, Wearing Sounds
The
eardrum, the vagus nerve, and a sense of wellbeing
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Toward Human
Listening |
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Raising the Antenna
Listening posture and sound analysis
Selectivity
Auditory radar
The Three Integrators: a diagnostic tool
Conclusion
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The Ear and the
Voice |
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How the Ear and the Voice are
Connected
Lateralization
The Leading Ear
The Dominant Mouth
We Speak with our Ears
Shifting Sides
The
Body Image
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Summary
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Part III
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THE LEARNING EAR |
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Preliminaries
Autism
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Tuning up the Body
First Results
The mother’s voice and the Desire to Communicate and to Speak
The Course of Therapy
Listening and the Therapeutic Process
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A Look at Dyslexia
Listening and
Attention Deficit Disorders
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What is ADD / ADHD?
Treatment Options
Tom and Jeff: Two Case Studies
Conclusion
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The Gift of Languages
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Ever heard of an “Ethnic Ear”?
The
Road to Success
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Part
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THE Listening Test |
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Preliminaries
The Ideal Listening Curve
Administering the Listening Test
The Meaning of the Air and Bone Conduction Curves
The Three Auditory
Zones
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The Body Zone (Zone 1)
The Communication Zone (Zone 2)
The Creativity Zone (Zone 3)
A
Global View
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Selectivity |
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Selectivity, Logic and Sense of Organization
Selectivity and Psychological Development
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Spacialization
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Spacialization Errors in the Body Zone
Spacialization Errors in the Communication Zone
The
Chicken and the Egg
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Lateralization
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The Present, the Future and the
Past
Dominance in Disguise
Shifting Dominance
From
Baby Talk to Language
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Personality and the
Listening Test |
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The Airborne Listening Profile
The Controlling Listening Profile
The Depressive Listening Profile
The
Flat-Line Listening Profile
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Listening to the Body
The Dialogue between the Ears
Symbolic Ears
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Part V
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THE PSYCHOLOGICAL EAR |
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Mother Cares for her
Unborn Child |
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Listening in Utero
The Mother’s Voice
Hi-fi
in Utero? What does the Fetus exactly Hear?
The Sonic Birth
Playing back their Mother’s Voice to Adults
Music for the Unborn Child
A Child is Born
The
Child grows up
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The Role of the
Father |
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The Voice of the Father
The Absent Father
Listening to Father’s Voice
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Refusing to Grow Up
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Telltale Signs for Parents to Watch for
Adults
refusing to grow up
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Recapitulating the
Journey |
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Part VI |
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THE SPIRITUAL EAR |
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Evolution and Creation
Listening to “the Sound of Life”
Letting Go
The Listening Posture
Making Sounds
Sacred Music, Sacred Chants
“Our Heart Breathes through the Ear”
The Divine Mozart
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Conclusion |
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APPENDIXES |
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Research Results
The Listening Posture
Humming
Sounds
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REFERENCES
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