English Explanatory Dictionary

double bind

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A dilemma in which someone receives contradictory instructions and cannot act on either.

Word forms

double bind double binds

Etymology

Coined by English anthropologist, linguist, semiotician and cyberneticist Gregory Bateson.

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