ABSTRACT
The potency of an object’s intentionality is likewise key to wellbeing in object-based therapy, in which the exchange of meaning between an object and a person becomes a lived experience of deep reflection, mindfulness, containment, social engagement, and a tangible means of shaping past, present, and future narratives. Object-based therapeutic methods utilize the powerful dynamics of psychic transactions and intentionality. The theory of Psychotherapeutic Object Dynamics defines the inherent and inextricable coalescence of object associations, attributed characteristics, and dynamic interactions that result in healthful and healing outcomes. Each of the dynamics is comprised of overarching object characteristics and corresponding inherent therapeutic activity. The action of maintaining, and keeping within close physical proximity to, an object in an effort to perpetuate the knowledge, and memory of the object’s associations. The action of releasing an object from a state of highly associative ownership into another place or state to permanently remove it from its former association, meaning, or state of ownership.
