گوش دادن زیبایی: کمک رقص/حرکت درمانی به درک روانی از کلیشه های حرکتی و تحریف در اوتیسم و روان پریشی در دوران کودکی و نوجوانی

Let’s imagine a six-year-old child coming into the consulting room swaying like a drunkard, his gaze absent, and always on the verge of losing his balance, making you feel he has no idea of or interest in or attention to the space around him, but finding pre- cisely the center of the room. There he keeps on swaying as if this was his way of avoiding to perceive an extremely dangerous experience: to be rooted in his feet. We follow the child, who goes on walking like a drunkard and draws a perfect circle on the floor around the central point and starts swinging his arms around his body, forming another ideal circle around himself. He reminds me of a planet that can’t leave its orbit around the sun. In this repetitive and uninter- rupted sequence of movements without any evolution, time seems to stop in an immobile eternity.