Press Articles
This collection brings together press articles devoted to the Tomatis method and the centres that practise it, published in the French regional and national press between 1990 and 2013.
These are not texts by Alfred Tomatis himself — those are gathered elsewhere in the Archives — but rather the view journalists took of audio-psycho-phonology: field reports, portraits of centres, echoes of controversy. These clippings bear witness to the public reception of the method, between enthusiasm and criticism.
Each article is transcribed in full and accompanied by its original facsimile. They are presented in chronological order.
Documents in this section
- Giro 90: Bugno, or three weeks of madness in Italy (mention)
2 October 2013
Cycling feature from Velo 101 on the 1990 Giro: a passing mention of the Tomatis method, evoked by analogy with the music therapy followed by rider Gianni Bugno.
- Poueyferré. Re-educating through listening
18 February 2011
Brief article in La Dépêche du Midi (2011) on a presentation of the Tomatis method by Martine Renous, at the invitation of the association Premiers Pas, in Poueyferré (Hautes-Pyrénées).
- The controversial conference
5 February 2010
Sud Ouest article (2010): in Carbon-Blanc, a conference by the association Lien parental relaying the Tomatis method is cancelled and a municipal subsidy called into question. A critical article, accompanied by a biographical box on Alfred Tomatis.
- Gérard Depardieu's wounded soul
27 July 2009
Le Figaro article (2009) on a documentary devoted to Gérard Depardieu: sent as a young man to Professor Tomatis for his speech problems, the actor reportedly came out transformed, with a developed memory and an enriched vocabulary.
- Grants against failure
27 February 2001
Sud Ouest article (2001): students at the ESC business school in Bordeaux launch the association "Faire échec à l'échec" to fund access for struggling young people to specialised methods, including the Tomatis method.
- Children with a well-stimulated ear
21 May 1997
Sud Ouest report (1997) on the Centre Tomatis Aquitaine run in Bordeaux by Danielle and Joël Fromenteau: audio-psycho-phonological assessment, education under the electronic ear, language-integration courses.
- Mozart is my "drug" — the strange training of the Italian cross-country skiers at the World Championships
12 February 1991
La Stampa Sera report (1991) from the cross-country skiing World Championships in Val di Fiemme: the Italian team listens to Mozart and Gregorian chant with Professor Tomatis's Electronic Ear, alongside the Mézières method.
- Medicine: Disinformation — the Electronic Ear
24 April 1990
René Laurentin's column in Le Figaro (1990) on medical disinformation: the author presents Alfred Tomatis as a case of 'concealment' and reports results of the Electronic Ear on childbirth and very premature babies.