Museum Objects, Health and Healing (Routledge Research in Museum Studies) - Softcover

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Cowan, Brenda; Laird, Ross; McKeown, Jason

 
9781032088327: Museum Objects, Health and Healing (Routledge Research in Museum Studies)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 103208832X ISBN 13: 9781032088327
Publisher: Routledge, 2021

Synopsis

Museum Objects, Health and Healing 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.

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.

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.

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About the Author

Brenda Cowan is Associate Professor in the Exhibition and Experience Design Department at the Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York in the USA.

Ross Laird is an independent author, scholar, and clinical consultant in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Jason McKeown is a Marriage and Family Therapist, Parenting Educator, Clinical Program Consultant, and an Adjunct Instructor at Lenior-Rhyne University, Center for Graduate Studies of Asheville, North Carolina.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2021
Language
English
ISBN 10 
103208832X
ISBN 13 
9781032088327
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
232

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