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Seit den Arbeiten des Psychodrama-Gründers J. L. Moreno hat sich das Psychodrama stetig weiterentwickelt. Dennoch fehlt, so die These des Autors, eine aktuellen Ansprüchen genügende genuin psychodramatische Therapietheorie. Er entwickelt in diesem Buch ein zeitgemäßes Störungsverständnis sowie ein Modell therapeutischer Prozesse, um daraus spezifische Therapiestrategien abzuleiten. Diese werden an vielen Fallbeispielen erläutert. Verfahrensübergreifend zeigt der Verfasser Verbindungen zu aktuellen psychotherapeutischen Ansätzen auf. Er betont die Integrationskraft des Psychodramas, das in der aktuellen Therapielandschaft spezifische Akzente setzen kann. So ist das Buch nicht nur für PsychodramatikerInnen von Interesse, sondern für alle in beraterischen und therapeutischen Berufsfeldern Tätigen, die sich über aktuelle Entwicklungen jenseits des eigenen verfahrensspezifischen Tellerrands informieren möchten und Hilfen für ihre praktische Arbeit suchen.
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Acknowledgements Foreword by Laura Kolbe Introduction 1. City Halls: Civic Representation and Public Space by Swati Chattopadhyay and Jeremy White 2. "A Laudable Pride in the Whole of Us": City Halls and Civic Materialism by Mary P. Ryan 3. Communicating Civic or National Pride? The City Hall as Communal "Hotel" in Scandinavian Capital Cities by Laura Kolbe 4. Rebuilding City Halls in Post-war Germany: Architectural Form and Identity by Jeffry M. Diefendorf 5. Old Town Hall in Prague: An Unresolved Architectural Challenge by Veronika Knotková and Hana Svatosová 6. Town Halls in Australia: Sites of Conflict and Consensus by Jenny Gregory 7. Courting the Council: Popular Petitioning and the Municipal Palace in Morelia, Mexico, 1880-1930 by Christina M. Jiménez 8. The Bombay Town Hall: Engaging the Function and Quality of Public Space, 1811-1918 by Preeti Chopra 9. Los Angeles City Hall: Space, Form and Gesture by Jeremy White 10. Politics, Planning, and Subjection: Anti-colonial Nationalism and Public Space in Calcutta by Swati Chattopadhyay 11. Transformation of Public Space in Fascist Italy by Lucy Maulsby 12. Moving Beyond Colonialism: Town Halls and Sub-Saharan Africa's Postcolonial Capitals by Garth A. Myers 13. Jakarta's City Hall: A Political History by Abidin Kusno 14. Seoul Spectacle: the City Hall, the Plaza, and the Public by Hong Kal Epilogue Index.
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Analysis of the architecture, iconography, and spatial relations that constitute the town hall to explore its historical ability to accommodate the "public" in different political and social contexts
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"Contributors offer valuable discussion of the post-WW II German Rathaus as an attempt to deal with an "uncertain" national identity and provide a good examination of architecture in the service of Mussolini's Fascist state. A welcome global approach that features material on Bombay, Jakarta, Mexico, and Korea is revealing, especially on the influence of colonialism; however, more could have been said about sources of indigenous, pre-European civic engagement. Endnotes and numerous, adequate, black-and-white illustrations are provided but no bibliography. Although this volume shows the inevitable fragmentation typical of such an enterprise, the attention to unfamiliar themes and innovative approaches means that this book will interest serious students of civic architecture.Summing Up: Recommended" --W. S. Rodner, Tidewater Community Colleg, CHOICE Reviews, January 2015