Alfred A. Tomatis

Alfred A. Tomatis (born January 1, 1920 in Nice , † December 25, 2001 in Carcassonne ) was a French doctor who first practiced as an ENT doctor in Paris before he started an APP (audio-psycho-phonology) therapy and established training center.

He developed the audio psycho-phonology (APP) , often also called the Tomatis method , Tomatis therapy or Tomatis audio therapy , sometimes also called listening therapy . This complementary medical application is based on treatments with specially prepared music and voice, with the simulation of the prenatal listening experience with the help of the appropriately modified mother's voice being of central importance.

The Tomatis Method is said to promote listening and communicating skills and to have numerous other beneficial effects on different areas of the brain. It should help with a large number of behavioral problems and learning disorders, the cause of which, according to Tomatis, are often hearing or auditory perception disorders.

The method is largely rejected by scientific medicine, as it is "based on ideas that are scientifically untenable".

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Individual evidence

↑ Monika Warner: The mother's voice - the heart of the successful listening therapy according to Dr. Tomatis, M. Warner, Dietzenbach 2011, ISBN 978-3-00-035712-1 .
^ Norman Doidge: How the brain heals , Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt 2015, ISBN 978-3-593-39477-0 , pp. 341-425.
↑ Reinhard Schydlo, Karin Atzpodin and Gerd Lehmkuhl: Effectiveness of audio-vocals integrative training (AVIT) in the case of auditory perception disorders in the parental judgment. Results of a retrospective assessment of 75 treated children In: Forum of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy , Issue 4, 1998, p. 48 ff., BKJPP Professional Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy in Germany e. V. (BKJPP), Aachen. ( Scroll to the source specified here up to the middle of the document )
^ Society for Neuropediatrics, the ADANO in the German Society for Ear, Nose and Throat Medicine, Head and Neck Surgery and the German Society for Phoniatry and Pedaudiology, 1998 ( Memento of October 24, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 58 kB)

personal data
SURNAME	Tomatis, Alfred A.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French ENT doctor and developer of audio-psycho-phonology (APP)
DATE OF BIRTH	January 1, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH	Nice , France
DATE OF DEATH	December 25, 2001
Place of death	Carcassonne , France

[1] Monika Warner: The mother's voice - the heart of the successful listening therapy according to Dr. Tomatis, M. Warner, Dietzenbach 2011, ISBN 978-3-00-035712-1 .

[2] Norman Doidge: How the brain heals , Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt 2015, ISBN 978-3-593-39477-0 , pp. 341-425.

[3] Reinhard Schydlo, Karin Atzpodin and Gerd Lehmkuhl: Effectiveness of audio-vocals integrative training (AVIT) in the case of auditory perception disorders in the parental judgment. Results of a retrospective assessment of 75 treated children In: Forum of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy , Issue 4, 1998, p. 48 ff., BKJPP Professional Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy in Germany e. V. (BKJPP), Aachen. ( Scroll to the source specified here up to the middle of the document )

[4] Society for Neuropediatrics, the ADANO in the German Society for Ear, Nose and Throat Medicine, Head and Neck Surgery and the German Society for Phoniatry and Pedaudiology, 1998 ( Memento of October 24, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 58 kB)