Theory of joy: the Science First Inclusion

What if inclusion did not begin at school, nor in therapy - but much earlier, in the first environment where a human being learns to exist?Born from more than three decades of living, research, and listening, The Theory of Joy proposes a new way of understanding human development. At its center is the First Inclusion: the experience of belonging, feeling safe, and being fully recognized within one's own family - before any institution.This complete edition gathers the entire quadrilogy in a single volume: - Book I - The First Inclusion: where inclusion truly begins. The discovery that transformed a mother's journey into a science of observation, and the inversion of priorities that changes everything.- Book II - The Theory of Joy: the foundations of a new philosophy of human development - the perceptive being, the integration of experience, Ontological Joy, the biology of joy, and the implantation of the self in the world.- Book III - The Joy Method: theory becomes a path. The seven movements - Observe, Understand, Welcome, Modulate, Strengthen, Implant, Flourish - and the frequencies that support regulation in everyday family life.- Book IV - The Theory of Joy in Dialogue with the Scientific Tradition: a rigorous conversation with Piaget, Vygotsky, Winnicott, Bowlby, Jung, Rogers, Maslow, Buber, Levinas, Scheler, phenomenology, philosophical anthropology, and the neurosciences of development - revealing why joy deserves a place among the foundations of the human sciences.Written in a voice that is at once scientific and deeply human, this book offers families, caregivers, educators, and autistic people a possible and urgent path: the recovery of autonomy and the conquest of joy. Because joy is not the reward of development - it is the soil where development learns to blossom.The First Inclusion does not begin when society welcomes the child. It begins at home. It is exactly there that it begins. And it is exactly there that it happens.