The Future of Education and Research on the Animal-Human Bond and Animal-Assisted Therapy: Part B: Animal-Assisted Therapy and the Study of Human-Animal Relationships: Discipline or Bondage? Context or Transitional Object?

摘要: Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the value of using different concepts biophilia and transitional relationships to study human-animal interaction, particularly those observed in animal-assisted therapy (AAT). It suggests that there is placing interaction with animals wider context plants, gardens, open spaces, wilderness. Most importantly, it emphasizes use medical model inherent idea AAT for describing effects interactions between people obscures more than illuminates. Therapy an impoverished way examining powerful human–animal because ignores sustaining function dependence beneficial contact on animal's continuing presence. Importantly, emphasis “therapy” distracts from very who are devoted them could have building communities capacity including a highly diverse range human beings helping all both reach their full potential health well-being.