PSICOMOTRICIDADE RELACIONAL: O CORPO COMO MEDIADOR PRINCIPAL DAS POTENCIALIDADES

Abstract

Relational psychomotricity can be understood as an educational and therapeutic practice that allows children, adolescents, adults, and the elderly to express their motor and relational conflicts through the body, through play and symbolic games. The present paper has as a question: How does relational psychomotricity use the body to mediate potentialities? To answer this question, we tried to investigate how relational psychomotricity uses the body to promote potentialities. Thus, in this construction we defined a brief historical account of relational psychomotricity, investigate what is understood as sensory motor pleasure as a factor for change, present how non-directive methods can stimulate representational skills, imagination and creativity, demonstrate the differences between relational psychomotricity and functional psychomotricity, and present the applications of relational psychomotricity as well as the training of psychomotricians in this modality. The methodology applied was based on a narrative literature review, as it does not submit to systematic criteria. In the data verification, research was carried out through books, magazines, scientific articles, through Bireme, Scielo and BVS, between the years 2010 and 2021. The motor dimension is as important as the psychic dimension, leading to the belief that both are an inseparable set, where it involves human movement in its entirety.