Gregory Bateson and the Promise of Transdisciplinarity

BATESON CENTENNIAL AAA Annual Meeting 2004 SESSION ABSTRACTS Presidential Session

Much of Gregory Bateson's work was misunderstood or unappreciated during his lifetime because it challenged people to think in new ways and defied disciplinary compartments. Textbook anthropology has tended to slot him into ‘functionalism’ or ‘culture and personality studies,' which is far too narrow an assessment of his contribution. Many of his ideas were in fields that were widely separated ...

The postural dynamics of a psychoanalytical process

Postural dynamics is a model and a coding system that allows researchers to scan the postural dimensions of any interaction. In this paper I will show how this model can be used to scan complex dimensions in a psychotherapeutic interaction, and to clarify some of the issues involved. I shall use Beatrice Beebe's published psychoanalytical case study of Dolores as a concrete example to show that...

Epistemological Error

An Analysis of the Nazi Film "Hitlerjunge Quex"

Gregory Bateson on deutero-learning and double bind: a brief conceptual history.

The concepts of deutero-learning and double bind have acquired an increasingly important status in various fields of social and behavioral science, particularly in psychiatry, psychotherapy, organization, and policy science. With this proliferation, however, their original meaning and significance has become increasingly muted. In this article it is argued that both concepts are important ingre...