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The '''Paret Movement Analysis''' (PMA) is the '''non-verbal observation system''' developed by '''Marco Paret''' as a diagnostic and operational tool of the [[Paret Method]] School. It integrates into a single framework the reading of gesture, posture, lateral asymmetry, touch, and underlying autonomic states, providing the operator — magnetizer, hypnotist, trainer, therapist — with a '''grid for reading the person's habitual trance''' and an '''operational guide''' for choosing the appropriate technique.

On a theoretical level, PMA is situated at the intersection of the '''European magnetic tradition''' (reading the body as a magnetic field and diagnosing fascination), the '''[[Polyvagal theory]]''' of [[Stephen Porges]] (the physiological grammar of autonomic states), the '''[[I sei tipi caratteriali nella mappa polivagale|system of six character types]]''' of the School, and a vast contemporary literature on touch, cerebral lateralization, and non-verbal communication. On an operational level, it is '''what the operator observes''' when entering into a relationship with the person — the first gesture of magnetic practice, before any induction or technique.

== I. The principle: the body does not lie ==

The founding principle of PMA is expressed by Paret in an essential formula: '''"the body does not lie"'''. While the rational mind is governed by introjected values, guilt, social rules, and adaptations that can mask the real state, '''every gesture expresses a potentiality''' that the trained operator must be able to grasp. PMA is the discipline of this reading: reading ''behind'' the discourse, through movement, posture, breath, muscle tone, and touch.

This principle is not exclusive to the Paret Method — it resonates with the Reichian tradition, with polyvagal theory, with somatic phenomenology — but it receives in the Paret Method an original technical systematization that intersects '''gesture observation''', '''lateralization reading''', '''typological diagnosis''', and '''technical choice of the hypnotic access door'''.

On a neuroscientific level, the Paretian principle finds its foundation in two complementary theories of contemporary cognition. The theory of '''somatic markers''' by '''Antonio Damasio''' (''Descartes' Error'', 1994) shows that cognitive decisions are modulated by '''automatic bodily signals''' that the brain reads before conscious rationalization — the body, literally, '''knows before the mind''' and expresses this knowledge through autonomic, postural, and gestural configurations readable by the experienced observer. The theory of '''embodied simulation''' by '''Vittorio Gallese''' and the '''mirror neurons''' (Rizzolatti and Gallese from 1996 onwards) shows that '''the observer's brain motorically simulates the observed gesture''' — recognizing another's gesture is, neurologically, '''executing it internally''', and from this comes immediate and direct affective understanding. PMA is in this sense '''a discipline of trained embodied simulation''': the trained magnetizer does not interpret from the outside, but '''reproduces internally''' the configuration of the other and from there understands it. The page '''[[Iain McGilchrist e la dualità emisferica]]''' presents the broader philosophical framework in which this embodied reading is situated — the relative dominance of the two cerebral hemispheres as '''two different ways of inhabiting the world''' and expressing it in the body.

== II. The three fundamental categories of gesture ==

Paret distinguishes three families of gestures that correspond to three fundamental relational modalities and three primary representational systems.

=== Volitional Gesture (V) — the voluntary gesture ===

The '''voluntary gesture''' is an intentional, directed, outwardly oriented movement. It includes '''pointing''', '''offering''', the '''cut''' (hand slicing through space), and generally all gestures that '''construct relational space''' or '''direct attention''' towards a precise point. On a sensory level, it is predominantly associated with the '''visual modality''' (V). On an autonomic level, it corresponds to the '''V+S''' configuration of the polyvagal map — sympathetic mobilization regulated by ventral engagement — and is characteristic of types that the School classifies as '''active-relational''' (Challenger, Tribal, Communicative).

=== Analytical Arguing Gesture (A) — the analytical gesture ===

The '''analytical gesture''' is a more reflective movement, often accompanied by '''self-adapters''' (self-adjustment gestures: touching one's face, fixing hair, drumming fingers). It includes the '''arch gesture''' (the arched gesture accompanying argumentation), gestures close to the body, and circular micromovements. On a sensory level, it is predominantly associated with the '''auditory modality''' (A) and verbal introspection. On an autonomic level, it corresponds to an '''introverted-ventral''' configuration with contained micro-sympathetic activation, and is characteristic of the '''Cartesian''' (5) and '''Narcissistic''' (1-6) types.

=== Caring/Cup Gesture (C) — the caring gesture ===

The '''caring gesture''' or '''Cup Gesture''' is the hand that closes into a cup, that welcomes, that contains. It includes the '''hug''', the '''hold''', the affectionate '''grab''', open hands turned upwards in offering. On a sensory level, it is predominantly associated with the '''kinesthetic modality''' (K). On an autonomic level, it corresponds to the pure '''V''' configuration (receptive ventral engagement) or '''V+D''' (intimate quiet), and is characteristic of the '''Idealist''' (2), '''Sensitive''' (4-9), and '''Relational''' (7-2 kinesthetic) types.

=== The enneagram in movement ===

The combinations of these three families generate the '''grid of eight postural houses''' that Paret calls the '''Moving Enneagram''' — '''VA, CV, VC, CA, AV, VC, AK, CA''' — each corresponding to an enneagram type and a cerebral lateralization configuration. This grid is detailed in the page '''[[The Moving Enneagram of Paret]]'''.

== III. The postural encoder: axes of movement ==

Independently of the three gesture families, PMA reads the '''global body movement''' along four cardinal axes, each with a precise diagnostic value.

* '''Forward''' — '''hyperactivity''', choleric orientation, orthosympathetic predominance, '''fire-choleric''' type in the nomenclature of ancient temperaments. On a polyvagal level, it is the '''Sulfur''' configuration of the page '''[[I sei tipi caratteriali nella mappa polivagale|six character types]]'''.
* '''Backward''' — '''fear''', withdrawal, defensive parasympathetic predominance. Polyvagally, it corresponds to increasing dorsal tone with sympathetic vigilance.
* '''Sinking''' — '''sadness''', '''hypoactivity''', water-lymphatic predominance, polyvagal '''Salt''' type (conservative dorsal vagus).
* '''Upper Movement''' (movement upward) — '''joy''', '''activation''', '''Sanguine''' type in Hippocratic nomenclature, polyvagal '''V+S''' configuration.

To these four cardinal axes are added secondary modulators: '''circular''' movements (continuity, mercurial fluidity), '''rhythmic''' movements (vagal regulation), '''micromovements''' (introspection, introverted configuration), '''pointing''' vs '''open palms''' (directivity vs receptivity).

== IV. Hand-over-face and cognitive mental states ==

A specific section of PMA is dedicated to the '''hand-over-face gesture''' — gestures of the hand brought to the face — which according to contemporary research (Mahmoud et al., 2011) constitute a '''reliable indicator of cognitive mental states'''.

Systematic observation distinguishes:

* '''Passive gestures''' (resting the open or closed hand on the face, supporting the chin) — associated with relaxed moods, rarely present in active cognitive states.
* '''Active gestures on the face''' (stroking, tapping, touching facial regions, especially with the index finger) — associated with precise '''cognitive states''': '''thinking''' (more frequent with the index finger touching the periocular region or temple), '''doubt or uncertainty''' (hand touching the chin, lips, mouth).

The distinction between hand-shape, action (static vs. in motion), and the region of the face touched is an '''original diagnostic cue''' that PMA has integrated from research on affective computing and non-verbal reading of cognitive states.

== V. Lateralization and typological diagnosis ==

A deeper level of PMA — the one that makes it a '''diagnostic''' tool and not merely descriptive — is the reading of '''cerebral lateralization''' through three rapid tests that every person performs spontaneously:

# '''Arm folding test''' — which forearm is on top when the person crosses their arms? Indicates '''adaptability''' (more or less available for adaptation to others).
# '''Hand clasping''' — which thumb is on top when the person interlocks their fingers? Indicates '''cognitive control over emotions''' (right thumb on top → left hemisphere more active in inhibiting emotions, a more "neurotic" configuration according to Bakan 1976, Galin 1974).
# '''Ear preference''' — which ear does the person spontaneously bring to the phone or to listen better? Indicates '''predominant attention to tones''' (left ear / right hemisphere / introvert) vs '''attention to words''' (right ear / left hemisphere / extrovert).

The combinations of these three dominances generate the '''eight typological acronyms''' (DSS, SDS, DDS, SSS, DSD, SSD, DDD, SDD) that Paret cross-references with the enneagram, MBTI, and ancient temperaments in the '''[[The Moving Enneagram of Paret]]'''.

The broader philosophical-neuroscientific framework in which this diagnostics is situated is that presented by the psychiatrist and philosopher '''Iain McGilchrist''' in the page '''[[Iain McGilchrist e la dualità emisferica]]'''. According to McGilchrist, the two hemispheres do not differ in ''content'' (the old popular dichotomy of language/images is scientifically outdated) but '''in ways of paying attention''' — the left hemisphere ("Emissary") exercises a narrow, manipulative, categorical attention; the right hemisphere ("Master") a broad, contextual, relational attention. PMA is therefore, in this reading, '''the discipline of recognizing which part governs''' in the observed subject — and correlatively, of the technical choice of the access door that '''re-establishes the relationship''' between the two parts.

=== The four adaptation styles ===

Combining ''arm folding'' and ''hand clasping'', PMA distinguishes four '''adaptation styles''' that have direct consequences on hypnotizability and the choice of access door:

* '''Individualist''' (D-S) — less trust, internal reference, lower hypnotizability if a field of respect and autonomy is not established first
* '''Autonomous''' (D-D) — self-control, autonomous internal reference, hypnotizability via self-induction
* '''Consensual''' (S-D) — external control, hypnotizability via directive paternal door
* '''Depending''' (S-S) — trust, external reference, hypnotizability via receptive maternal door

This grid has direct clinical application: choosing the wrong induction style for the adaptation type '''drastically reduces the effectiveness''' of hypnosis and can activate resistance.

== VI. Postures, temperaments, magnetic valence ==

PMA integrates further postural indicators documented by contemporary research (Riskind & Gotay 1982; Briñol, Petty & Wagner 2009; Canales et al. 2010):

* '''Ideal or lordotic-kyphotic posture''' — associated with extroversion, regulated sympathetic predominance
* '''Sway back / flat back posture''' — associated with introversion, withdrawal configurations

To these indicators, the School adds the classical vocabulary of the European magnetic tradition:

* '''Electric valence''' — choleric predominance, direct gestures, pointing, fast rhythm. Corresponds to the right thumb on top in hand clasping (dominant left hemisphere).
* '''Magnetic valence''' — lymphatic predominance, welcoming gestures, cup, slow rhythm. Corresponds to the left thumb on top (dominant right hemisphere).
* '''Electromagnetic valence''' — sanguine balance, regulated mobilization.
* '''Diamagnetic valence''' — melancholy, withdrawal, poor mobilization.

This vocabulary is not metaphorical in the magnetic tradition: it describes '''autonomic configurations''' that polyvagal theory today re-describes in terms of ventral, sympathetic, and dorsal set points.

== VII. Touch as a diagnostic and therapeutic datum ==

A large section of PMA is dedicated to the '''reading of touch''' — both the touch the operator uses, the touch the person gives to themselves (self-touch), and the touch observed in the family dyad. This section relies entirely on the research documented in the page '''[[Touch e sistema nervoso autonomo]]''', which details the neurobiological effects, evolutionary development, and communicative functions of touch.

In operational summary, PMA distinguishes:

* '''Type of touch''' — affectionate, instrumental, stimulating, intrusive, rhythmic, static
* '''Self-touch localization''' — the body area touched and the hand used, with diagnostic value (laterality of self-touch correlated with prenatal maternal stress, Reissland et al. 2015)
* '''Frequency and duration''' — indices of relational state and attachment
* '''Reciprocity''' — the touch–response pattern that reveals the quality of the relationship

Hertenstein's decoder of the '''eight distinct emotions communicable through touch''' (anger, fear, happiness, sadness, disgust, love, gratitude, sympathy) is integrated into PMA as an operational grid: each emotion has its specific '''body area''', '''intensity''', '''movement pattern''', and '''duration'''.

On the level of neural substrate, PMA integrates the discovery of '''C-tactile fibers''' (McGlone, Olausson, Morrison 2014; Walker et al. 2017) — the class of unmyelinated afferents specific for slow, affectionate touch (3 cm/s, 32°C) that selectively activate the posterior insular cortex and mediate oxytocin release, described in detail in the page '''[[Touch e sistema nervoso autonomo]]'''. This data is '''crucial for training''': the technique of magnetic touch is not generic — '''it is precise in speed, rhythm, temperature, and localization'''.

On a clinical level, the framework of '''somatic experiencing''' by '''Peter Levine''' (''Waking the Tiger'', 1997; ''In an Unspoken Voice'', 2010) and the work of '''Bessel van der Kolk''' (''The Body Keeps the Score'', 2014) provide the contemporary vocabulary to describe what the magnetic tradition has always operated: '''the completion of interrupted defensive responses''' through touch and relational containment — a phenomenon described in the page '''[[Movimento autonomo della crisi]]'''.

== VIII. Eye movements, gaze, blinking ==

The PMA framework is completed by the observation of '''eye movements''' and '''gaze''':

* '''Eye movements pattern''' — frequency of movements to the left (associated with greater hypnotizability, in non-neurotic subjects; Bakan 1976)
* '''Gaze avoiding''' vs '''gaze searching''' — patterns associated with introverted-neurotic vs receptive configurations
* '''Preferential visual attraction''' — towards positive faces (sanguine-stable configurations) vs towards negative faces (neurotic, depressive, phobic configurations)
* '''Blinking rate''' — low in high concentration and emerging hypnotic states, high in states of anxious vigilance
* '''Foveal vs peripheral gaze''' — narrow focal gaze (attentional task configurations) vs soft peripheral gaze (trance and presence configurations)

The soft peripheral gaze is one of the main indicators of the state of '''[[Presenza Integrale|Integral Presence™]]''' and of the availability to enter '''magnetic fascination''' in the tradition of [[Donato — Il Padre della Fascinazione|Donato]], [[Maestro Dante Caravelli|Caravelli]], and [[Prof. Erminio Di Pisa — Ipnosi con lo Sguardo|Di Pisa]].

== IX. PMA as a grid for technical choice ==

The operational value of PMA is not in classification for its own sake, but in the '''guide to technical choice'''. Once the prevalent type is recognized — through the three lateralization tests, observation of the dominant gesture (V, A, C), postural axis, touch, and gaze — the operator can choose:

* the appropriate '''hypnotic access door''' (maternal, paternal, mental), as described in the page '''[[Ipnosi, Teoria Polivagale e Liberazione Somatica]]'''
* the '''type of induction''' (verbal, non-verbal, magnetic, fascinatory, postural)
* the '''privileged communicative channel''' (KV, KA, VA, AV, AK according to the Moving Enneagram nomenclature)
* the '''specific techniques''' of the Paret Method most suited to the type: '''[[Crisi Mesmerica]]''' for types with blocked autonomic discharge, '''[[Caduceo ermetico]]''' for types needing tonic postural immobilization, '''[[Allineamento Magnetico (mano nuca-sacro)|Magnetic Alignment]]''' for types with dysregulation of the nuchal-sacral axis, '''[[Tummo]]''' for types capable of contained self-regulated mobilization

PMA is in this sense the '''operational bridge''' between the initial observation of the subject and the choice of the appropriate technique. It is not an abstract theory — it is '''the tool that the School operator uses in the first twenty seconds of the encounter''' to orient everything that follows.

== X. Profiling and compatibility ==

A final operational element of PMA is the '''compatibility profiling''' between two people (for example in couples, corporate coaching, group dynamics). The procedure is:

# Observe the '''three basic crosses''' (arm folding, hand clasping, ear preference) — determine the three-letter acronym
# Observe the '''figure of clasped hands''' (parallel vs overlapping palms, cooperative vs competitive interlocking)
# Determine the '''dominant postural position''' (sinking-fear, up-choleric, etc.)
# Observe '''hand movements''' during the exchange
# Evaluate '''position in time''' (orientation to past, present, future in gestures)
# '''Adopt the compatibility figure''' — the operator can consciously assume the mirroring or complementary posture to facilitate engagement

This compatibility profiling is one of the most characteristic applications of PMA in the School's '''training and coaching''' contexts, and applies '''both in the operator-subject relationship in hypnosis and in general relational dynamics'''.

== XI. The contemporary academic bridge: Action Types, Marsman, Messinger ==

The Paret Movement Analysis dialogues with some lines of contemporary research that have '''academically formalized''' aspects that European magnetic practice has always known operationally. Three strands are particularly relevant.

=== Action Types and motor preferences (Marquet, Hippolyte, Bertrand During, INSEP) ===

The French school of '''Action Types''' — founded by '''Ralph Hippolyte''', systematized by '''Bertrand During''' (Sorbonne) and applied to high-performance sports by the '''INSEP''' (Institut National du Sport, de l'Expertise et de la Performance) in Paris — has developed a typological model based on '''motor preferences''' as '''stable neuro-predispositions''' observable in gesture, posture, and breathing.

The foundational book is ''[[Marquet]] — '''À chacun son cerveau, sa réussite''''' (2013), which presents a model of '''motor profiles''' lateralized and organized around body axes: '''pelvis-shoulder axis''', '''proximal vs distal mobility''', '''dominant foot-hand support''', '''respiratory rhythm'''. The '''academic thesis of Lussiana''' (2016, Université de Franche-Comté) provided further experimental validation of the model, and numerous INSEP documents apply the system to performance sports.

Particularly interesting for PMA is the terminology used in the '''study of the golf swing''': '''"Profil Terrien ou Aérien dans le swing"''' — the distinction between "terrestrial" players (grounded, slow, powerful, dominant pelvis-feet axis) and "aerial" players (mobile, rhythmic, light, dominant pelvis-shoulder axis). This nomenclature '''coincides''' precisely with the '''Earth/Air/Water/Fire''' typology that the School uses in its internal non-verbal analysis documents. Action Types thus provides PMA with '''a contemporary French academic confirmation''' of a distinction that the European magnetic tradition has always practiced.

The School's PMA differs from Action Types in its '''initiatic and magnetic''' dimension (Action Types remains in sport and performance), but the '''typological lexicon''' is largely overlapping, and the two systems can dialogue profitably.

=== Méthode Marsman and postural biomechanics ===

The '''Méthode Marsman''' by '''Pieter Marsman''' (manual medicine, biokinematics) has developed a system of '''dynamic postural analysis''' that integrates:

* '''Pelvis-shoulder girdle axis''' as the primary axis of motor coordination
* '''Ascending and descending muscle chains''' as compensation patterns
* '''Ophthalmological reading''' (Marsman eye tests) as an indicator of global postural lateralization

Marsman's works documented in the "''Revue de médecine manuelle''" (methodological article) and the updates ''Biocinématique 2018'' and ''Ophtalm 2009'' provide PMA with '''the biomechanical basis''' of postural reading: how posture is not simply "aesthetic appearance" but '''an integrated neuromuscular expression''' of autonomic and psychic states. Marsman particularly documents how the '''pillar leg''' (the weight-bearing leg in neutral standing) is a '''reliable marker of cerebral lateralization''', directly integrable into PMA diagnostics.

=== Joseph Messinger and the coded lexicon of gestures ===

The work of '''Joseph Messinger''', author of numerous popular volumes on non-verbal communication — including ''Le langage des gestes pour les nuls'', ''La grammaire des gestes'', ''Ces gestes qui parlent à votre place'' — has systematized a '''coded gestural lexicon''' of over 1500 micro-gestures with their typical reading in the French relational context. Messinger is not an academic author but '''an experienced popularizer''' who has encyclopedically collected observations from the French semiological tradition (Birdwhistell, Cosnier, Calbris) applied to everyday relational practice.

For the School's PMA, Messinger provides a '''reference dictionary''' — not as the ultimate interpretive authority (PMA maintains its own original grid cross-referenced with polyvagal, lateralization, and alchemical typology) but as a '''descriptive catalog''' useful in training the student to recognize the gestural particular.

=== Lateral preferences (Coren) ===

The classic work by '''Stanley Coren''' and Clare Porac ''Lateral Preferences and Human Behavior'' (Springer, 1981) — cited in section V of this page — remains '''the reference manual''' for PMA's lateral diagnostics. Coren systematically documents the statistical distribution of lateral preferences in the population, their correlations with personality, cognitive performance, health, and the cross-cultural stability of patterns. Coren's statistical data is '''the epidemiological basis''' on which PMA builds its eightfold typology.

=== The somatic traditions of the 20th century ===

On the side of body practice, PMA also dialogues with three 20th-century traditions that have worked on body-mind-posture integration:

* '''Ida Rolf''' and '''structural integration''' (Rolfing, 1950s-1970s) — systematized work on the "vertical line of the body in gravity", a concept of great relevance for the principle of '''vertical axis''' of Integral Presence™.
* '''Moshe Feldenkrais''' and '''Awareness Through Movement''' — worked on the reorganization of '''functional laterality''' and body schema, providing practical tools complementary to PMA diagnostics.
* '''David Berceli''' and '''TRE (Trauma Releasing Exercises)''' — codified in the early 2000s a sequence of postures that trigger '''spontaneous neurogenic tremor''', a phenomenology that mirrors that of the '''[[Crisi Mesmerica|mesmeric crisis]]''' and the bicycle exercise of '''[[Wilhelm Reich|Reich]]'''. TRE is discussed in detail in the page '''[[Movimento autonomo della crisi]]'''.

=== Spiegel HIP (Hypnotic Induction Profile) ===

The work of '''Herbert Spiegel''' and David Spiegel ''Trance and Treatment'' (1978, rev. 2004) codified the '''Hypnotic Induction Profile (HIP)''' — a brief diagnostic system (5-10 minutes) that assesses '''hypnotizability''' through simple indicators: the "roll eye sign" (the way the eyes roll upward), arm sensitivity, and readiness for suspension. Spiegel distinguished three main profiles — '''Apollonian, Odyssean, Dionysian''' — which correspond to lateral-typological configurations compatible with the PMA grid.

For the School operator, the Spiegel HIP is a '''rapid screening tool''' that integrates well with PMA diagnostics: where PMA reads the prevalent type through lateralization and gesture, Spiegel reads hypnotic availability through ocular and kinesthetic indicators.

== XII. PMA in the framework of the magnetic tradition and contemporary science ==

The Paret Movement Analysis is the '''contemporary reframing''' of an ancient discipline. The European magnetic tradition — from [[Franz Anton Mesmer|Mesmer]] through [[Marquis de Puységur|Puységur]], [[Charles Lafontaine|Lafontaine]], [[Donato — Il Padre della Fascinazione|Donato]], [[Maestro Dante Caravelli|Caravelli]], [[Prof. Erminio Di Pisa — Ipnosi con lo Sguardo|Di Pisa]] — has always practiced a reading of the body that today PMA explicitly codifies. Paret's novelty is '''the systematic integration''' of this reading with:

* '''[[Polyvagal theory]]''' by Porges (1994 and onwards) as a physiological grammar
* '''contemporary research on touch''' (Field, Feldman, Hertenstein, Meaney) as a neurobiological foundation
* '''cerebral lateralization''' (Bakan, Galin, Luria) as a diagnostic grid
* the '''Myers-Briggs Type Indicator''' and the '''enneagram''' as converging typologies
* the alchemical '''Tria Prima''' ([[Paracelso]], [[Oswald Wirth]]) as a trans-traditional historical root

This integration is one of the '''epistemological signatures''' of the Paret Method: not a reduction of one level to another, but '''recognition of the convergence''' between independent vocabularies that describe real phenomena of human behavior. The page '''[[The Moving Enneagram of Paret]]''' presents the complete typological synthesis that results, and the page '''[[I sei tipi caratteriali nella mappa polivagale]]''' the same typology read in the polyvagal-Paracelsian vocabulary.

== See also ==

=== PMA system and typologies ===

* [[The Moving Enneagram of Paret]] — the eightfold typological grid
* [[I sei tipi caratteriali nella mappa polivagale]] — the polyvagal-Paracelsian version of the same typology
* [[Touch e sistema nervoso autonomo]] — the neurobiological dossier on touch
* [[Iain McGilchrist e la dualità emisferica]] — the philosophical-neuroscientific framework of lateralization
* [[Tria Prima]] — alchemical root of the typology
* [[Mercurio Filosofico]] — the integrated state as the seventh configuration

=== Neurological part ===

* [[Paret Method]]
* [[Ipnosi, Teoria Polivagale e Liberazione Somatica]]
* [[Teoria polivagale]]
* [[Stephen Porges]]
* [[Stato integrato]]
* [[Presenza Integrale|Presenza Integrale™]]
* [[Default Mode Network]]
* [[Movimento autonomo della crisi]]

=== Magnetic part ===

* [[Crisi Mesmerica]]
* [[Caduceo ermetico]]
* [[Allineamento Magnetico (mano nuca-sacro)]]
* [[Tummo]]
* [[Franz Anton Mesmer]]
* [[Donato — Il Padre della Fascinazione]]
* [[Maestro Dante Caravelli]]
* [[Prof. Erminio Di Pisa — Ipnosi con lo Sguardo]]
* [[Alchimia e Magnetismo]] — axis page of the cluster

== Sources ==

=== School publications ===

* Marco Paret, ''Paret Movement Analysis'' (didactic presentation, ISI-CNV materials).
* Marco Paret, ''Hypnosis, Polyvagal Theory, and Somatic Liberation'' (Springer chapter, in preparation).
* Marco Paret, ''Le Flux Magnétique et les Savoirs Anciens'' (2017).

=== Cerebral lateralization ===

* P. Bakan, «The eyes have it», ''Psychology Today'', 4(11), 1971.
* P. Bakan, «The Right Brain Is the Dreamer», ''Psychology Today'', 1976.
* D. Galin, «Implications for psychiatry of left and right cerebral specialization», ''Archives of General Psychiatry'', 31, 1974.
* A. R. Luria, ''Higher Cortical Functions in Man'' (1966/1980); ''The Working Brain'' (1973).
* P. Flor-Henry, «Lateralized temporal–limbic dysfunction and psychopathology», ''Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences'', 280, 1976.
* I. McGilchrist, ''The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World'', Yale University Press, 2009.
* I. McGilchrist, ''The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World'', 2 vol., Perspectiva Press, 2021.

=== Embodied cognition and mirror neurons ===

* A. Damasio, ''Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain'', Putnam, 1994.
* A. Damasio, ''The Feeling of What Happens'', Harcourt, 1999.
* A. Damasio, ''Self Comes to Mind'', Pantheon, 2010.
* V. Gallese, «The "shared manifold" hypothesis», ''Journal of Consciousness Studies'', 8, 2001.
* G. Rizzolatti, C. Sinigaglia, ''Mirrors in the Brain: How Our Minds Share Actions and Emotions'', Oxford University Press, 2008.
* G. Lakoff, M. Johnson, ''Philosophy in the Flesh'', Basic Books, 1999.

=== Touch and non-verbal communication ===

* M. J. Hertenstein, D. Keltner, B. App, B. A. Bulleit, A. R. Jaskolka, «Touch communicates distinct emotions», ''Emotion'', 6(3), 2006.
* T. Field, ''Touch'', MIT Press, 2014.
* R. Feldman, «Parent–infant synchrony and the construction of shared timing», ''Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry'', 48(3-4), 2007.
* M. Mahmoud, T. Baltrušaitis, P. Robinson, L. Riek, «3D corpus of spontaneous complex mental states» (hand-over-face), ACII 2011.
* F. McGlone, J. Wessberg, H. Olausson, «Discriminative and affective touch», ''Neuron'', 82(4), 2014.
* S. C. Walker et al., «C-tactile afferents: Cutaneous mediators of oxytocin release», ''Neuropeptides'', 64, 2017.

=== Somatic trauma and defensive completion ===

* P. A. Levine, ''Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma'', North Atlantic Books, 1997.
* P. A. Levine, ''In an Unspoken Voice'', North Atlantic Books, 2010.
* B. van der Kolk, ''The Body Keeps the Score'', Viking, 2014.
* A. N. Schore, ''Affect Regulation and the Origin of the Self'', Erlbaum, 1994.
* A. N. Schore, ''Right Brain Psychotherapy'', Norton, 2019.
* D. Berceli, ''The Revolutionary Trauma Release Process'', Namaste Publishing, 2008.

=== Action Types and motor preferences ===

* R. Hippolyte, B. During, ''Action Types: La science des préférences motrices'', Éditions Amphora, 2009.
* B. Marquet, ''À chacun son cerveau, sa réussite'', Le Cherche Midi, 2013.
* L. Lussiana, ''Préférences motrices et performance sportive'' (doctoral thesis), Université de Franche-Comté, 2016.
* INSEP documentation (Institut National du Sport, de l'Expertise et de la Performance), Paris, various years.

=== Posturology and clinical biomechanics ===

* P. Marsman et al., «La méthode Marsman», ''Revue de médecine manuelle'', 2017.
* P. Marsman, ''Biocinématique'' (internal manual), 2018.
* P. Marsman, ''Ophtalmologie posturale'', 2009.
* J. Messinger, ''Le langage des gestes pour les nuls'', First Éditions, 2008.
* J. Messinger, ''La grammaire des gestes'', Flammarion, 2006.
* J. Messinger, ''Ces gestes qui parlent à votre place'', First Éditions, 2010.
* S. Coren, C. Porac, ''Lateral Preferences and Human Behavior'', Springer, 1981.

=== 20th-century somatic traditions ===

* I. P. Rolf, ''Rolfing: The Integration of Human Structures'', Harper & Row, 1977.
* M. Feldenkrais, ''Awareness Through Movement'', Harper & Row, 1972.
* M. Feldenkrais, ''The Potent Self'', Harper & Row, 1985.

=== Hypnosis and induction ===

* H. Spiegel, D. Spiegel, ''Trance and Treatment: Clinical Uses of Hypnosis'', American Psychiatric Press, 1978/2004.
* M. H. Erickson, E. L. Rossi, ''Hypnotic Realities'', Irvington, 1976.

=== Yoga and polyvagal theory ===

* M. B. Sullivan, M. Erb, L. Schmalzl, S. Moonaz, J. N. Taylor, S. W. Porges, «Yoga therapy and polyvagal theory: The convergence of traditional wisdom and contemporary neuroscience for self-regulation and resilience», ''Frontiers in Human Neuroscience'', 12:67, 2018 (PMC5835127).

=== Polyvagal theory and neurophysiology ===

* S. W. Porges, ''The Polyvagal Theory'', Norton, 2011.
* M. A. Zmijewski, A. T. Slominski, «Neuroendocrinology of the skin», ''Endocrine Reviews'', 2011.

=== Typologies ===

* I. Briggs Myers, ''Gifts Differing: Understanding Personality Type'', Davies-Black, 1980.
* C. G. Jung, ''Psychologische Typen'', 1921.
* Oswald Wirth, ''Le Symbolisme hermétique'', Dervy, 1909.
* Paracelso, ''Opus Paramirum''.

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