Bateson Project

The Bateson Project (1953-1963) was the name given to a ground-breaking collaboration organized by Gregory Bateson which was responsible for some of the most important papers and innovations in communication and psychotherapy in the 1950s and early 1960s. Its other members were Donald deAvila Jackson, Jay Haley, John Weakland, and Bill Fry. Perhaps their most famous and influential publication was Towards a Theory of Schizophrenia (1956),^[1] which introduced the concept of the Double Bind, and helped found Family Therapy.^[2]

Bibliography

• "Development of a theory: A history of a research project", in C. Sluzki & D. Ransom (Eds.). Double bind: The foundation of the communicational approach to the family. NY: Grune & Stratton, Publishers.
• "One thing leads to another", by John Weakland, in C. Wilder-Mott & J. Weakland (Eds.) Rigor & Imagination: Essays from the legacy of Gregory Bateson. NY: Praeger.
• Change: Principles of Problem Formation and Problem Resolution, with Paul Watzlawick and Richard Fisch (WW Norton, NY, 1974).
• The Interactional View: Studies at the Mental Research Institute, Palo Alto, 1965-1974, edited with Paul Watzlawick (WW Norton, NY, 1979).

References

2. Bateson, G., Jackson, D., Haley, J., & Weakland, J. (1956). Toward a theory of schizophrenia. Behavioral Science, 1, 251-264)

External links

• http://www.mri.org/dondjackson/brp.htm
• https://web.archive.org/web/20070813225924/http://www.mri.org:80/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