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Hot Topics Gymnasium + Summer at Harvard 2007 Syllabus

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Von Bertalanffy, L. (1968) General System Theory: Foundations, Development, Applications. New York: George Braziller.

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"I was gently dropped from Harvard because a rumor got around, 'Bateson says anthropologists ought to be psychoanalyzed.' I did not say this, and I don't think I even believed it, but if they thought this was a good reason for dropping me, then I was probably lucky to be dropped. I was immediately picked up by Jurgen Ruesch for his research project in the Langley Porter Clinic, a psychiatric institution. This was the beginning of fourteen years of association with psychiatry, where I did my best, again, to bring formal theory into a very unformed Augean stable. The result was the so-called double bind hypothesis, which provided a framework for the formal description of schizophrenic symptoms and the experience of the schizophrenic in his family. I think this held up and still holds up pretty well in the face of a lot of misunderstanding and a little criticism." Gregory Bateson

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