Museum Objects, Health and Healing
The Relationship between Exhibitions and Wellness
- 218 pages
- English
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Museum Objects, Health and Healing
The Relationship between Exhibitions and Wellness
About this book
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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Index
- āaction-of-textualityā 10n3
- active listening 194ā5
- Adair, Vivienne 21n4
- adventure therapy 94
- āaesthetic encounterā 35
- aesthetic flow experience 35
- Africa 34, 36
- Agents of Faith: Votive Objects in Time and Place exhibition 57
- Ahmed, Sara 40, 88
- American Alliance of Museums (AAM) 49
- Center for the Future of Museums 49
- American Museum of Natural History 55
- archaeology 22, 149
- Arendt, Hannah 24, 42
- Art as Experience (Dewey) 25
- associating 81ā2
- object characteristics 81
- Psychotherapeutic Object Dynamics 135, 146, 157ā8, 167
- therapeutic competency 81ā2
- āAn Attention-Value Model of Museum Visitorsā (Bitgood) 10n8, 90n3
- attentiveness 112ā14
- Australian Central Desert 33
- authentic learning 112
- awe, as object characteristics 37ā8
- Baumeister...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- SECTION I Our primal dialogue with objects
- SECTION II The theory of psychotherapeutic object dynamics
- SECTION III Therapeutic object practices in clinical and educational settings
- SECTION IV Health and healing in the museum setting
- SECTION V Implications for museums
- Conclusion
- References
- Index