Watching Nora Bateson's new film about her famed father's work, An Ecology of Mind, I was reminded of the concept of the double bind—an idea that has been central to family therapy since its earliest ...

Many patients with metastatic cancers receive therapy that is initially highly effective, often resulting in complete remission. However, cancer cells have a remarkable capacity to evolve resistance ...

Damned if you do, damned if you don't. How many times have you heard this? More importantly, how many times have you said it about a situation you were in? This is called a double bind: the feeling ...

A psychologist friend speaks often about “double binds”—two contradictory expectations placed on a person. Both expectations cannot be met; it’s impossible. When faced with a double bind, no matter ...

There is a clinical term that perfectly describes relationships in which it is impossible to find satisfactory answers or solutions: the “double bind.” The term was coined by one of the founders of ...

Study is the first to directly quantify and validate a method of exploiting the way cancers evolve, both in the lab and through mathematical modelling ...