Bateson Project
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The Bateson Project was the name given to a ground-breaking collaboration organized by Gregory Bateson
beginning in 1953 which was responsible for some of the most important papers and innovations in communication and psychotherapy in the 1950s and early 1960s. Its members were Gregory Bateson
, Don Jackson
, Jay Haley
, John Weakland
, and Bill Fry. Perhaps the most famous and influential publication of the Project was "Towards a Theory of Schizophrenia
", which introduced the concept of the Double Bind
.
Gregory Bateson
Gregory Bateson was an English anthropologist, social scientist, linguist, visual anthropologist, semiotician and cyberneticist whose work intersected that of many other fields. He had a natural ability to recognize order and pattern in the universe...
beginning in 1953 which was responsible for some of the most important papers and innovations in communication and psychotherapy in the 1950s and early 1960s. Its members were Gregory Bateson
Gregory Bateson
Gregory Bateson was an English anthropologist, social scientist, linguist, visual anthropologist, semiotician and cyberneticist whose work intersected that of many other fields. He had a natural ability to recognize order and pattern in the universe...
, Don Jackson
Donald deAvila Jackson
Don D. Jackson was an American psychiatrist best known for his pioneering work in family therapy.From 1947 to 1951 he studied under Harry Stack Sullivan....
, Jay Haley
Jay Haley
Jay Douglas Haley was one of the founding figures of brief and family therapy in general and of the strategic model of psychotherapy, and he was one of the more accomplished teachers, clinical supervisors, and authors in these disciplines.-Life and works:Conceived in a log cabin on his family's...
, John Weakland
John Weakland
John H. Weakland was one of the founders of brief and family psychotherapy. At the time of his death, he was a Senior Research Fellow at the Mental Research Institute in Palo Alto, California, Co-Director of the famous Brief Therapy Center at MRI, and a Clinical Associate Professor Emeritus in...
, and Bill Fry. Perhaps the most famous and influential publication of the Project was "Towards a Theory of Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia is a mental disorder characterized by a disintegration of thought processes and of emotional responsiveness. It most commonly manifests itself as auditory hallucinations, paranoid or bizarre delusions, or disorganized speech and thinking, and it is accompanied by significant social...
", which introduced the concept of the Double Bind
Double bind
A double bind is an emotionally distressing dilemma in communication in which an individual receives two or more conflicting messages, in which one message negates the other. This creates a situation in which a successful response to one message results in a failed response to the other , so that...
.
External links
- http://www.mri.org/dondjackson/brp.htm
- http://www.mri.org/dondjackson/toward.htm The front page of the historic article, Towards a Theory of Schizophrenia
- Paper Gregory Bateson: Cybernetics and the social behavioral sciences by Lawrence S. Bale, Ph.D.: First Published in: Cybernetics & Human Knowing: A Journal of Second Order Cybernetics & Cyber-Semiotics, Vol. 3 no. 1 (1995), pp. 27-45.
- Article The Double Bind: The Intimate Tie Between Behaviour and Communication by Patrice Guillaume: Excellent introductory article about Double Bind
- Article Schizophrenia and the Family: Double Bind Theory Revisited by Matthijs Koopmans, 1997.
- Article Paradox and Absurdity in Human Communication Reconsidered by Matthijs Koopmans, 1996.
- http://www.behavenet.com/capsules/treatments/famsys/dblebnd.htm
- http://www.laingsociety.org/cetera/pguillaume.htm