Toward a theory of schizophrenia

By G. Bateson, D. Jackson, J. Haley, J. Weakland. 2007

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Living Leadership: A Systemic Constructionist Approach (2008, background): “…structures, or motives, Bateson argues that to predict behavior a systemic approach must pay attention to the reciprocal or mutual causality among persons, whereby the behavior of any individual is the product of the interaction among persons (Bateson, 1972; Bateson et al., 1956; Sexton, 1994).”
From paradox to pattern shift: Conceptualising liminal hotspots and their affective dynamics (2017, background): “In this regard, we might invoke the contrast between the example of “medically unexplained symptoms” (or “MUS”) and the example of forms of sickness that are (collectively perceived as) life-threatening, such as many types of cancer.”
The Dark Side of Organizational Paradoxes: The Dynamics of Disempowerment (2019, background): “This pragmatic version of the barber’s paradox illustrates the essential relationship between pragmatic paradoxes and communication, originally discussed by Gregory Bateson (1972; Bateson et al. 1956).”
How can we capture the subject’s perspective? An evidence-based approach for the social scientist (2011, background): “As this may be disturbing for the subject – ‘be natural’ being a paradoxical injunction (Bateson et al., 1956; Sluzki & Veron, 1981) – the subject also receives technical instructions.”