The Interactional View

Gregory Bateson, Paul Watzlawick, et al.

Slide Show Introductory lecture based in part on Em Griffin, A First Look at Communication theory (3rd ed.), McGraw-Hill, 1997.

Links:

The MRI Home Page (The Mental Research Institute, Palo Alto, CA, home of the "Palo Alto Group")
Gregory Bateson (General information on Bateson.)
Family Therapy Timeline (Historical sketch of family therapy, including the Palo Alto Group.)
Oikos (This page makes the bridging connections from Ecology to Psychology. In particular it focuses on the many different but interweaving themes which unite five writers:  G. Kelly,  G. Bateson,  R. Laing, H. Maturana, &  E. v. Glasersfeld)
Antonio Rossin (Italy; Neurologist, FP; A new way of communication to increase flexibility in mind for Humans of the Year 2000. An off-beat personal website on communication theory, loosely informed by Bateson)
Soliloquy or Psychosis? (Recent paper on the double bind theory of schizophrenia.)
Don Jackson Home Page (Website on the life and work of Don Jackson.)
Watzlawick's Disciplinary Matrix (Excerpts from Watzlawick's writings.)

Related Theories:

CMM Theory
Cybernetics
Dialogue
Relational Communication
 

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