« Accordanse » : une chorégraphie des interactions

Abstract

BackgroundThis article focuses on presenting the elaboration and creation of an original therapeutic program set up in perinatal care which insert dancing in mental care. “Accordance” is a weekly session dedicated to the care of the mother, the child, and their interactions, based on a corporeal and drive approach. It is designed for three mother-baby dyads treated in a Day Hospital Perinatal Service. MethodWe focus essentially on one dyad's clinical observations. Analysing this dyad's observations through a qualitative methodology and basing on psychanalytical theory, we study how dance allows the reinitiating of drive in mothers and enroll the babies in the drive circuit. ResultatsWe show how drive stimulated through dance has effects on mother's libidinal investment, on the sensory-motor and psycho-affective baby's development and also on their affective tuning. DiscussionSubmerged on this choreographic and musical bath, the mother finds the pleasure of her corporal sensations that favorite a wishing movement to which the baby answers. She can now awake sensual enjoyment on her baby, prerequisite for all of the mental and relational activity. The baby makes his first dancing steps in mother's look, drive circuit loop itself and the primordial meeting can happen. ConclusionThrough the creation of a sensory and drive co-modality, dance take a singular path favoring the emergence of an affective tuning and this creating a harmonious “interactions’ choreography”.