Roberto Carlo Russo
Diagnosis
and psychomotor therapy
INDEX
Foreword
Introduction
1 The child-environment system
1. The individual
and its evolution
2. Emotional
dynamics of the motor act
3. The interaction
between child and models in the environment
2 Diagnostics
1. Historical
analysis of significant data
2. Bio humoral and instrumental tests
3. Specialist
consultations
4. Psychomotor
evaluation
4.1
Psychomotor observation
4.2
Psychomotor and neuromotor test
A. Motor organization
B. Information organization
C. Bodily pattern organization
D. Space-time organization
E. Communication organization
F. Graphic expression organization
G. Attention processes organization
H. Emotionality organization
3 Psychomotor pathology
1. Motor
act troubles
2. Psychomotor
syndromes
2.1
Simple psychomotor retardation
2.2
Motor infantilism
2.3
Motor inhibition deficiency
2.4
Awkwardness
2.5
Motor debility
2.6
Psychomotor inhibition
2.7
Cerebellar deficiency
2.8
Psychomotor instability
2.9
Frontal deficiency
3. Relational
syndromes of psychomotor interest
3.1
Insufficient self syndrome
3.2
Evolution discord caused by insufficient self
3.3
Relationship distortion syndromes
4. Motor
awkwardness
5. Sectional
symptoms with a psychomotor meaning
5.1
Motor discharges
5.2 Tics
5.3
Somatognosic troubles
4 The therapy
1. Preliminary
remarks
2. Meaning
of psychomotor therapy
3. Psychomotor
setting
4. Preliminary
remarks to managing psychotherapy
4.1
Therapeutic aims
4.2
Space-time dimension in therapy
4.3
Symbolic game and phantasmal creation
5. Managing
the therapy
5.1
Presentation of the setting
5.2
Early stages of therapy
5.3
Progress of therapy
5.4
Therapeutic strategies
5.5
Symbolic game and phantasmal creation
6. Supervising
7. Supporting
environment models
8. Specific
aims in psychomotor syndromes
8. 1 Simple psychomotor retardation
8. 2 Motor infantilism
8. 3 Motor inhibition deficiency
8. 4 Awkwardness
8. 5 Motor debility
8. 6 Psychomotor inhibition
8. 7 Cerebellar deficiency
8. 8 Psychomotor instability
8. 9 Frontal deficiency
8.10
Relational syndromes pertaining to psychomotricity
Appendix
The psychomotricist’s training
Preliminary
remarks
The knowledge of neurophysiology
The knowledge
of the child
Educational
principles and relational troubles between adult and child
The knowledge
of neuropsychic pathologies
Psychomotor
setting and therapeutic layout
Gaining
awareness of the problems concerning the relationship between
the therapist and the patient
Using videotapes
Written
and oral exercises
Body expression
training
Learning
form the body’s past
Training
Final dissertation
Programme
type
Glossary
of terms
Bibliography
Analytic
index