double bind
nounEtymology
Coined by English anthropologist, linguist, semiotician and cyberneticist Gregory Bateson.
- derived from anthropologist
Definitions
A dilemma in which someone receives contradictory instructions and cannot act on either.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for double bind. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA