Toward a Theory of Schizophrenia

Responding to Bateson's (1972) theory of schizophrenia on a personal level, I was struck by the delicate and vulnerable nature of the psychological state of young children. Because they possess the instinctive need to be loved and cared by their parents, their ability to understand the world and the way it works are derived from their parents. To me, the double bind situation, as described by Bateson (1972), in which a child cannot blatantly accuse the mother of her insincerity (p. 214), is literally and figuratively a living hell from which there is no respite. In the child's perverse world, nothing he does with regard to the mother can result in a positive outcome. During the process of growing up, the child does not receive any prai

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