Authors

Patrick Dumas de la Roque

A clinical psychologist, trained by Alfred Tomatis himself. He assisted the professor for several years in England before settling in Toulouse, where he practised for decades. His L’écoute, c’est la vie (2007, reissued by us in 2014) has become the book people enter the method through, and it has been translated into English and Spanish.

Where his strength lies: he knows the theory first-hand, and he has seen enough patients to tell what is merely said from what actually holds up.

With us: L’écoute, c’est la vie (fr) · Listening that’s life! (en) · La escucha, es la vida (es)

Pierre Sollier

A Frenchman settled in California, he came upon the method in 1984 — he consulted Tomatis to correct the accent that was keeping him from being understood in English. The encounter changed his life: he gave up his career, trained in the method, and founded the Mozart Center in Walnut Creek, which he would run for three decades.

His Listening for Wellness (2005) received the Best Psychology Book award from the American association of independent publishers. It is the reference treatise on the method, since translated into Spanish and French.

With us: Apprends à écouter pour ton bien-être (fr) · Aprende a escuchar para tu bienestar (es, out of print) · Listening for Wellness (en)

Juan Antonio Timor Pineda and Chaime Marcuello Servós

A practitioner and a father. Juan Antonio Timor Pineda, an educationalist, has been applying the method for more than thirty years. Chaime Marcuello Servós, professor of sociology at the University of Zaragoza, is the father of Luis, who has Down syndrome. They write in two voices, and that is what makes their book singular: the method is looked at from both sides of the headphones.

With us: Tomatís, una experiencia para compartir — French translation in preparation