This discussion was initiated by Jay Haley and John Weakland as part of their research on the Communications Research Project directed by Gregory Bateson. The project was financed by the Macy Foundation, administered by Stanford University, and located at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Palo Alto, California. The “double bind” mentioned in this paper is discussed in “Toward a Theory of Schizophrenia,” Behavioral Science, 1, No. 4, 1956.
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