The publishing house

Besson Editions is a small Swiss publishing house based in Neuchâtel. It publishes and translates the books that make the Tomatis Method readable — the ones that open it up without betraying it.

Why

Alfred Tomatis’s work is immense, and reputed to be impenetrable. His own books, magnificent as they are, are not doors into it. What was missing were books capable of introducing the method: that is what we publish, in agreement with the authors and with the support of the F.I.A.P.E. — Fédération Internationale d’Audio-Psycho-Phonologie et Pédagogie de l’Écoute, the international federation of audio-psycho-phonology and listening pedagogy.

We publish little, and slowly. Two authors so far: Patrick Dumas de la Roque, a clinical psychologist trained by Tomatis, and Pierre Sollier, founder of the Mozart Center in California. Six printed editions in three languages, a seventh in preparation.

How

Each book is typeset, printed and distributed by us or with a partner publisher (Sial Pigmalión in Madrid for the Pierre Sollier translations). We hold our own ISBN publisher prefix, assigned by the Swiss ISBN agency in Zurich: our books carry numbers in the 978-2-8399-… range.

We sell directly, from this site. Our titles can also be found on the large platforms, at a higher price — we say so on the pages concerned, because it is true.

Declaration of interest

Christophe Besson, who runs this house, manufactures and sells the Oreille Électronique Besson® at Besson of Switzerland®, the device used in the Tomatis Method, and he signs the preface to one of the books offered here. We would rather you knew this as you read our pages: it lets you weigh what we write.

We also want to say what research establishes and what it does not. The books in this catalogue report clinical experience and personal testimony; they do not constitute proof of effectiveness. The Tomatis Method has, to this day, no solid scientific validation — the systematic reviews available conclude that the level of evidence is weak. We publish these books because they are sincere and useful, not because they would demonstrate anything.