Hi Garics,
My post was slightly unclear, please excuse me.
I'll have to be more precise :
The speech therapist I've talked with told me that she WINTESSED first-hand the damage that some of Tomatis's methods could do : she had patients who happened to be also on Tomatis and who got permanent ear buzzing, partial earing loss, and even cases of punctured ear-drums. She herself got permanent ear-buzzing from trying Tomatis listening sessions, and says she was able to cure herself, but now definitely discourages anyone from doing anything related to Tomatis. Having met the guy several years ago, before his death, she reports having had the following verbal exchange with him :
"You know most of your methods don't work or can be dangerous, don't you ?" (She's a great person, but quite obnoxious), to which he replied coolly : "Yes, I know. But I don't really care. My family runs the business and the marketing. I just want to get the cash so I fund my research !"
Pretty scary !
Of course it's her word against the world's. Personally I find the account disturbing, and since she's a really good practitionner, I tend to trust her. But since I never witnessed any of the damage she reports with my own eyes (or ears), I won't bet my head on it.
I just wanted you guys to get this piece of testimony, since it's the topic of this thread.
Personally I still use the Mindstim soundtrack from time to time, but not on a regular basis.
Erwan
