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Subject: psychology
Category: Health > Conditions and Diseases
Asked by: nat5-ga
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Posted: 10 Apr 2004 06:18 PDT
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Question ID: 328064
Years ago schizophrenia was thought to be caused by parents giving
children contradictory messages simultaneously.  I would like to have
information about this or where I could find information about this.
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Subject: Re: psychology
Answered By: bobbie7-ga on 10 Apr 2004 09:38 PDT
Rated:4 out of 5 stars
 
Hello Nat5,

Below you will find information about Gregory Bateson's double bind theory.
I will provide you with short quotes from each source. You can read
the full article by clicking on the links under each excerpt.


Schizophrenia and the Family:
Double Bind Theory Revisited 
York College/ City University of New York

 ?Double bind theory proposes that symptoms of schizophrenia are an
expression of contradictory patterns of interaction in the family.?
In the mid nineteen fifties, a number of scholars developed proposals
that attributed schizophrenia to the exposure to, and participation
in, dysfunctional communication patterns in the family. Some
characterizations of such patterns are double bind interaction.?

?One of the best known models to arise out of this work has been
Gregory Bateson's double bind theory (Bateson, Jackson, Haley &
Weakland, 1956), which proposes that contradictions in the interaction
between family members predisposes its members to schizophrenia.?

Goertzel.org
http://www.goertzel.org/dynapsyc/1997/Koopmans.html


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Schizophrenia and the Family II: Paradox and Absurdity in Human
Communication Reconsidered
Matthijs Koopmans (York College/CUNY)

 ?Double bind interactions are defined as conflicting messages
conveyed more or less simultaneously, as in the situation, well known
from Bateson et al.'s paper were a mother tells her son that she loves
him while at the same time turning her head away with a look of
disgust. In this example, the mother conveys two messages to the son:
one of love, conveyed verbally, and one of disgust, conveyed
non-verbally.?

Goertzel.org
http://www.goertzel.org/dynapsyc/1998/KoopmansPaper.htm


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?In 1955, Bateson and others wrote a paper in which they reported on
their research into a new theory of Schizophrenia. The theory goes
like this: Schizophrenia arises in an environment in which the child
is continually caught in ?double binds? ? situations in which no
matter what he does, he ?can?t win.?
http://oblivio.com/road/00082001.shtml


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Double Bind and Paradoxical Communication

 ?Formulated in the 1950s by, amongst others, Gregory Bateson to
create a theory about schizophrenia, double bind theory is about
relationships and what happens when important basic relationships are
chronically subjected to invalidation through paradoxical
communication.?

University of Portsmouth
http://www.envf.port.ac.uk/illustration/images/vlsh/dbpc.htm


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The Bind
http://venus.va.com.au/suggestion/bind.html


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?Another view, called the Double-Bind Theory, was proposed by Bateson
in the mid 1950s. So-called double-bind situations were thought to be
an important contributing factor to the development of schizophrenic
thought disorder. Characteristics of a double-bind situation include:

An intense relationship with another individual, to the extent that it
is especially important to be able to understand communication from
that person accurately in order to respond appropriately.
The other person expresses two messages when making a statement, one
which  denies the other.
 
The individual is not able to explain the mutually contradictory
messages and cannot withdraw from the situation or ignore the
messages.?

Purchase College
http://www.ns.purchase.edu/psych/Psychobio_of_Schizophrenia/history/history.htm


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The Double Bind:
The Intimate Tie Between Behavior and Communication
by Patrice Guillaume
http://web.archive.org/web/20020301013933/http://www.well.com/user/bbear/double_bind.html

If the above link isn?t clickable, please copy and past the above link
in your browser window.


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I hope you find this information useful!

Best regards,
Bobbie7
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