British-American anthropologist and cyberneticist who developed the double bind theory of schizophrenia and one of the most integrative theories of mind, ecology, and communication.
Double bind: a communicative situation in which contradictory messages at different levels of abstraction are received simultaneously, with no exit possible — proposed as a contribution to schizophrenia etiology. Steps to an Ecology of Mind: a collection of essays developing a systemic, pattern-based view of mind, nature, and communication. Mind is immanent in the system, not located in the individual organism.
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