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Double bind
About: Double bind is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 30 publications have been published within this topic receiving 2481 citations.
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TL;DR: The theory of schizophrenia is based on communications analysis, and specifically on the Theory of Logical Types as discussed by the authors, and from observations of schizophrenic patients is derived a description, and the necessary conditions for, a situation called the double bind, where no matter what a person does, he "can't win".
Abstract: Schizophrenia—its nature, etiology, and the kind of therapy to use for it—remains one of the most puzzling of the mental illnesses. The theory of schizophrenia presented here is based on communications analysis, and specifically on the Theory of Logical Types. From this theory and from observations of schizophrenic patients is derived a description, and the necessary conditions for, a situation called the “double bind”—a situation in which no matter what a person does, he “can't win.” It is hypothesized that a person caught in the double bind may develop schizophrenic symptoms. How and why the double bind may arise in a family situation is discussed, together with illustrations from clinical and experimental data.
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TL;DR: The double bind hypothesis and the schizophrenic dilemma were seen as part of a continuum of human experience of communication, that involved intense relationships and the necessity to discriminate between orders of message as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: With fifty years having passed since Gregory Bateson and his colleagues published their famous paper, 'Towards a Theory of Schizophrenia', it is an opportune time to review the theory and its clinical relevance today. Bateson's team began with an interest in how the identity and functioning of self regulating systems was maintained through mechanisms of information, control and feedback. This work foreshadowed and gave momentum to the development of family therapy, with several members of the original research group later forming the initial schools of family therapy. Bateson, accompanied by Haley, Weakland and Jackson, formed a complex picture of the reciprocal complementariness and escalations that form family life. The 'double bind hypothesis' and 'the schizophrenic dilemma' were seen as part of a continuum of human experience of communication, that involved intense relationships and the necessity to discriminate between orders of message. Fifty years on, the double bind hypothesis of Gregory Bateson and his research group still offers ongoing insights, cause for reflection, an area and methodology of research, and proposes interventions that dismantle pathology and offer hope of new, more functional pathways. (editor abstract)
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TL;DR: A phenomenological approach was used and the interviews were developed, attention paid to Bateson's double bind theory, Kohlberg's theory of moral development and ethical theories, which led to the care worker's difficult double bind situations.
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TL;DR: The purposes of the present paper are to describe a researchable elaboration of the double bind theory, specifying the minimum level of complexity deemed necessary for such a communicational study and suggesting a method of breaking the data into units which are neither meaninglessly isolated nor too complex to be handled.
Abstract: THIS is a report on some theoretical and technical contributions to the investigation of the double bind; they are the product of an ongoing research project on communication in the families of schizophrenic patients The purposes of the present paper are to describe a researchable elaboration of the double bind theory, specifying the minimum level of complexity deemed necessary for such a communicational study and suggesting a method of breaking the data into units which are neither meaninglessly isolated nor too complex to be handled Having proposed disqualification as an operational component of the overall double bind pattern, we will identify, define, and illustrate some varieties of what will be called transactional disqualification and emphasize another equally essential component, the response of the "victim" The Double Bind Hypothesis In essence, we will describe disqualification as one, but definitely not the only,
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