The purpose of this study is to investigate how the attachment characteristics projected on the image of
the adolescent with insecure attachment could be interpreted by object-relation theory and to determine
what help the object-relation approach offers to the role of a curer in the process of art therapy. The
research subject is a 16-year-old girl who had left school after finishing the first year of middle school. The
researchers carried out the procedures through a total of 15 sessions and interpreted the data through
object-relation theory and by putting interviews, observations and artifacts together. As a result, 8 main
themes appeared: ‘withdrawal from the object relation,’ ‘relation with the inner separated bad object,’
‘anxiety over object loss and falsehood of self,’ ‘rejection from the object and conflict of object contact,’
‘holding environment,’ ‘self pursuing a new reality relation,' ‘self experiencing the ability of the stabilized
object relation,’ and ‘recovered self-ability and reality-object relation.’ The conclusions of this study through
these results are that first, the object-relation interpretation of the attachment characteristics projected on the
image may be of help when describing the contents and change aspects of attachment characteristics, and
second, the object-relation approach may be of help in the process of art therapy to the role of a curer as
a good object.