ABSTRACT
Three people come to mind when I think about this interesting behavior. There were two men and one woman.
THEORY
Depending on the psychic structure of the person you are treating, you can monitor what they do with your furniture as an indication of their thinking, or you can bring to their attention that they are doing something that is meaningful. They may not know what it is, but it is interfering with their ability to understand their conflicts.
Usually, the meaning refers to the therapist, especially as the therapist symbolically represents a member of the person's family (transference resistance), especially someone who had interfered with the development of the person's autonomy.
