Museum Objects Health and Healing

<p><em>Museum Objects Health and Healing</em> provides an innovative and interdisciplinary study of the relationship between objects health and healing. Shedding light on the primacy of the human need for relationships with objects the book explores what kind of implications these relationships might have on the exhibition experience. </p><p>Merging museum and object studies as well as psychotherapy and the psychology of well-being the authors present a new theory entitled Psychotherapeutic Object Dynamics which provides a cross- disciplinary study of the relationship between objects health and well-being. Drawing on primary research in museums psychotherapeutic settings and professional practice throughout the US Canada Bosnia-Herzegovina and the UK the book provides an overview of the theory’s origins the breadth of its practical applications on a global level and a framework for further understanding the potency of objects in exhibitions and daily life. </p><p>Museum Objects Health and Healing will be essential reading for academics researchers and postgraduate students interested in museum studies material culture mental health psychotherapy art therapies and anthropology. It should also be valuable reading for a wide range of practitioners including curators exhibition designers psychologists and psychotherapists. </p>