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:
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.