1st Edition
Museum Objects, Health and Healing The Relationship between Exhibitions and Wellness
Introduction
Part I Our Primal Dialogue with Objects
1. Ordinary Portents
2. Object Scholars and the Literature
3. The Power of Objects
Part II The Theory of Psychotherapeutic Object Dynamics
4. Origin of the Theory: Brenda Cowan
5. The Theory and Framework
Part III Therapeutic Object Practices in Clinical and Educational Settings
6. The Wilderness Within: Jason McKeown
7. Creativity and the True Teacher: Ross Laird
Part IV Health and Healing in the Museum Setting
8. Seeing Through a New Lens: the Empirical Research
9. The National September 11 Memorial & Museum
10. The War Childhood Museum
11. The Derby Museum and Art Gallery
12. The Museum @ FIT
Part V Implications for Museums
13. The Museum—Wellness Connection
14. Working with Trauma, Grief, and Related Challenges
Biography
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.
