Le Toucher et la Paralysie : le rôle du toucher dans la construction de Soi et la relation à l'Autre

To touch, to be touched… The subject invites to reflexion when one is valid. What is the case for a person with cerebral palsy? How does she touch? What does she feel when she is being touched, massaged? The article refers, in a more global way, to the question of Touch, linked with our sensibility and our sensory experiences in our first relationships and our self-construction. It gives voice to persons suffering from cerebral palsy in the way of testimonies on their feelings of touch. What does it represent for them? How do they speak of their experiences? Their words questions our practices and our relationship to the other person in therapeutic touch and well-being touch, as well as their implications and complementarities.