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Bernard Aucouturier (1934, Tours, France) is the founder of the PPA® (Pratique Psychomotrice Aucouturier).

He begun as Professor of Physical Education. In the early sixties, he moved to Tours to work at the “Centre d’éducation physique specialisée” which later became “Centre de Pratique Psychomotrice”.

He initially worked with children with morphological and serious behavior disorders, and later also with children from kindergarten and primary schools.

He developed his theories in the education and therapeutic field on the basis of his observations of games played by infants all over the world and the conclusions he drew from his practical work with children of all sort of histories.

He was influenced by the theories of Jean Le Boulch (education through movement), Pierre Vayer (psychology of movement), and by development psychologists like Jean Piaget and Henri Wallon which underline the important role of movement, action and “tonic dialogue” in the acquisition of all developmental stages, emotional and cognitive abilities.

He was also influenced by the theories of D.H. Winnicott who stresses the importance of the environment (“holding environment”) and by Julian de Ajuriaguerra

He collaborated many years with André Lapierre with whom he wrote several books.

He teaches in seminars at the certified PPA® training schools and aat other events to students, teachers, psychologists, pedagogists in Europe, South America and South Africa.

In 2010, the “ EIA - École Internationale Aucouturier “ was founded, with offices in Tours, France.

Bernard Aucouturier has co-written and written several books on psychomotricity of children, most of them have been translated into German, Italian, Spanish.

His last book "La méthode Aucouturier: Fantasmes d'action et pratique psychomotrice" (not available in English) explain thoroughly the very fundamentals of Prof. Aucouturier's work.

Works by Bernard Aucouturier in their original titles

 * Les contrastes et la découverte des notions fondamentales. A.Lapierre et B.Aucouturier / 1974


 * Associations des contrastes, structures et rhytmes. A.Lapierre et B.Aucouturier / 1974


 * Les nuances". A.Lapierre et B.Aucouturier / 1974


 * La symbolique du mouvement. A.Lapierre et B.Aucouturier / EPI, 1982 3rd edition.


 * Bruno, psychomotricité et thérapie. B.Aucouturier et A.Lapierre / 1977


 * Le manque au corps. Le fantasmes corporels en éducation et thérapie. A.Lapierre et B.Aucouturier / Doin, 1983
 * La pratique psycomotrice. Réeducation et thérapie. B.Aucouturier, I.Darrault, J.L.Empinet / Doin, 1984. ISBN : 978-2-7040-0451-5


 * Qu'est-ce qui fait courir l'enfant?. B.Aucouturier et G.Mendel / Louvain la Neuve, 1999


 * Peur de rien, peur de tout ­ L’enfant et ses peurs. Aucouturier, Bernard/Van Nieuwenhoven, Catherine / Louvain la Neuve : Presses universitaires de Louvain, 2003
 * La Méthode Aucouturier: Fantasmes d'action et Pratique Psycomotrice. B.Aucouturier / De Boeck, 2005, ISBN : 978-2-8041-4880-5