PSY 11 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Gregory Bateson, Double Bind, Murray Bowen
13 Apr 2016
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Leadership is really a relationship between one person who is leading and at least one other person who is following, and if you don"t have that relationship you don"t have leadership. We should be focusing on interactions and relationships rather than personalities. Symmetry: is one in which the two people are both doing the same type of things and behaviors (these interactions escalate) (nothing new happens, it becomes boring) Complementary: the two people are doing behaviors that are opposite, but the one completes the other (leader and follower, no tension because there is no disagreement) Double bind: a way of communicating, you need 2 people who have an important relationship and one must be more powerful than the other (mother and son for ex. ), the more powerful gives 2 demands that contradict each other. Families of schizophrenics use double binds when they talk to each other, and argued that by doing this is causes schizophrenia.
