A experiência da regressão na Psicomotricidade: uma nova perspectiva a partir de Winnicott.

Abstract

Psychomotricity, viewed as a formal therapy, considers regression as the symbolic experience someone experiments along a psychomotricity therapy. Such experience would be like a symbolic return to the time when the patient was still a baby, a time when he/she should communicate with his/her mother throughout the so called tonic dialogue. This thesis has the purpose of developing the theme of regression from a new perspective. That is the psychosomatic experience that was presented and enlarged by the British psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott. We initially present some of the Psychomotricity history. We also punctuate the changes that have happened inside this science. After that, we mention Winnicott´s emotional development theory and the new perspective of regression we find in Winnicott´s clinical work. Then we develop a different perspective that shows the baby´s movement as a spontaneous gesture. By doing so we are able to confirm the idea that regression in Psychomotricity is a psychosomatic experience. Finally, we present a methodology that we call the Psycomotricity Therapy of Winnicottian Basis. We created such a therapy to confirm the possibility of regression to non-integration viewed as a psychosomatic experience that is at a time pleasant and integral.