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    Museum Objects, Health And Healing
    (Routledge Taylor & Francis Group London And Newyork, 2022-02-02) Brenda Cowan ; Ross Laird ; jason Mckeown
    study of the relationship between objects, health, and healing. light on the primacy of the human need for relationships with The book explores what kind of implications these relationships night have on the exhibition experience. ning museum and object studies, as well as psychotherapy and the Joy of well-being, the authors present a new theory entitled Psytherapeutic Object Dynamics, which provides a cross-disciplinary study the relationship between objects, health, and well-being. Drawing on imary 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.