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Article: The Sign of Love: Gregory Bateson and the Family Therapy Paradigm
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- The American Journal of Semiotics
- Article date:
- January 1, 2003
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Abstract:
In this essay, I argue for the continuous influence of Gregory Bateson's Communicology on the field of family therapy. My argument is based on a re-examination of Bateson's Palo Alto research period. More specifically, I suggest that family therapy saw its genesis in Batesons work on the double bind paradox, which has become the matrix for the family's communication system approach. In this essay I closely examine the paradox's structure from two perspectives: systemic and semiotic. I show how several main elements of the problem posed by Bateson translated into various approaches to family therapy thus constituting it as a self-sustaining paradigm.
I. Introduction
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