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Foreword by Léna Tomatis 13
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Preface by Don Campbell 15 |
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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
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The Role of Our Ears
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The Evolution of the
Ear 43
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Do Fish have Ears? 43
The Long Road toward Verticality 44
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How Do We Hear? 46 |
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The External Ear 47
The Middle ear 47
The Inner Ear 51
Air and
Bone Conduction 56
Skin
and Hearing 57
The
Human Antenna 58
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Energy through the
Ears? 61 |
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Charging Sounds, Wearing Sounds 64
The
eardrum, the vagus nerve, and a sense of wellbeing 69
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Toward Human
Listening 74 |
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Raising
the Antenna 75
Listening posture and sound analysis 80
Selectivity 83
Auditory radar 86
The
Three Integrators: a diagnostic tool 91
Conclusion 99
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The Ear and the
Voice 100 |
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How the
Ear and the Voice are Connected 102
Lateralization 105
The
Leading Ear 106
The
Dominant Mouth 108
We
Speak with our Ears 111
Shifting Sides 114
The
Body Image 116
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Summary
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Part III
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THE LEARNING EAR |
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Preliminaries 127
Autism 129
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Tuning
up the Body 130
First
Results 133
The
mother’s voice and the Desire to Communicate and to Speak 135
The
Course of Therapy 140
Listening and the Therapeutic Process 142
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A Look at Dyslexia
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Listening and
Attention Deficit Disorders 155
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What is
ADD / ADHD? 155
Treatment Options 160
Tom and
Jeff: Two Case Studies 165
Conclusion 168
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The Gift of Languages
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Ever
heard of an “Ethnic Ear”? 171
The
Road to Success 177
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Part
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THE Listening Test |
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Preliminaries 183
The Ideal Listening
Curve 189
Administering the
Listening Test 193
The Meaning of the Air
and Bone Conduction Curves 195
The Three Auditory
Zones 197
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The
Body Zone (Zone 1) 200
The
Communication Zone (Zone 2) 203
The
Creativity Zone (Zone 3) 207
A
Global View 209
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Selectivity 210 |
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Selectivity, Logic and Sense of Organization 210
Selectivity and Psychological Development 212
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Spacialization
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Spacialization Errors in the Body Zone 220
Spacialization Errors in the Communication Zone 221
The
Chicken and the Egg 222
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Lateralization
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The
Present, the Future and the Past 225
Dominance in Disguise 227
Shifting Dominance 229
From
Baby Talk to Language 231
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Personality and the
Listening Test 236 |
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The
Airborne Listening Profile 237
The
Controlling Listening Profile 243
The
Depressive Listening Profile 248
The
Flat-Line Listening Profile 253
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Listening to the
Body 256
The Dialogue between
the Ears 258
Symbolic Ears 265
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Part V
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THE PSYCHOLOGICAL EAR |
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Mother Cares for her
Unborn Child 269 |
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Listening in Utero 269
The
Mother’s Voice 272
Hi-fi
in Utero? What does the Fetus exactly Hear? 274
The
Sonic Birth 278
Playing
back their Mother’s Voice to Adults 284
Music
for the Unborn Child 290
A Child
is Born 295
The
Child grows up 297
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The Role of the
Father 304 |
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The
Voice of the Father 304
The
Absent Father 316
Listening to Father’s Voice 324
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Refusing to Grow Up
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Telltale Signs for Parents to Watch for 328
Adults
refusing to grow up 334
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Recapitulating the
Journey 337 |
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Part VI |
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THE SPIRITUAL EAR |
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Evolution and
Creation 343
Listening to “the
Sound of Life” 346
Letting Go 349
The Listening
Posture 352
Making Sounds 356
Sacred Music, Sacred
Chants 360
“Our Heart Breathes
through the Ear” 364
The Divine Mozart
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Conclusion, 371 |
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APPENDIXES |
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Research Results 379
The
Listening Posture 384
Humming
Sounds 388
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REFERENCES
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