Psychomotricity, play and body-in-relation: contributions to intervention

• Main Authors: Jorge Manuel Gomes de Azevedo Fernandes, Paulo José Barbosa Gutierres Filho, Alexandre Luiz Gonçalves de Rezende
• Format: Article
• Language: Portuguese
• Published: Universidade Federal de São Carlos 2018-09-01
• Series: Cadernos Brasileiros de Terapia Ocupacional
• Subjects: Psychomotor Practice; Therapeutics; Body; Play
• Online Access: http://www.cadernosdeterapiaocupacional.ufscar.br/index.php/cadernos/article/view/2036/1036

This essay article addresses some fundamentals that look at play as a mediator of psychomotor practice and the centrality of the body-in-relation playful dimension, framed in a dialectic between the real body and the imaginary body. Through an exposition of ideas, which are based on different areas of knowledge, we present some guidelines for health professionals who intend to act in a therapeutic way or assist with child development, using play-in-relation as intervention mediator. After brief considerations about psychomotricity as practice-in-relation, we equate the genesis of play-in-relation and its theoretical-practical grounds, explaining the importance of sensory-motor experiences (perceptive-praxis) and representations (imaginary-symbolic) in the psychocorporeal and psychomotor development of the child. As final considerations, we present some reflections necessary to frame play in therapeutic intervention, reinforcing the importance of establishing a quality relationship. In general, we approach a set of ideas that enables therapists - regardless of whether they are psychomotor therapists, occupational therapists, or others - to reflect on how to request function, sensoriality, and the imaginary to favor the processes of psychic integration, when using play-in-relation as mediator of their intervention.