Psychology

G. Bateson, D. Jackson, J. Haley, J. Weakland

2007.1.17SYSTEMS RESEARCH AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE

DOI: 10.1002/bs.3830010402

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The theory of schizophrenia presented here is based on communications analysis, and specifically on the Theory of Logical Types, and derived a description of a situation called the “double bind”—a situation in which no matter what a person does, he “can't win.”

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BATESON, G., et al. Toward a theory of schizophrenia. SYSTEMS RESEARCH AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE, 2007, 1: 251–264.