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Bateson Project

Family dynamics study

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Through Schizophrenia

One of the project's first locations was the Menlo Park VA Hospital, which was chosen because of Bateson's previous work there as an ethnologist. The initial research, which was funded by a Rockefeller grant, focused on "strange communication" and nonsensical language among the patients of the institution who had schizophrenia. The group studied this within the context of double bind communication in family dynamics.

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