Title: Steps to an ecology of mind : collected essays in anthropology, psychiatry, evolution, and epistemology /
Authors: Bateson, Gregory, 1904-1980.
Publisher: Aronson,
Year: 1987
Subjects: Thinking; Schizophrenic Psychology; Biological Evolution; Ecology; Anthropology, Cultural; Ethnology.; Knowledge, Theory of.; Psychiatry.; Evolution; Cultural psychiatry.
Contents: 1971 preface, Mark Engel -- 1987 preface, Mary Catherine Bateson -- Introduction: the science of mind and order -- Part 1. Metalogues. Why do things get in a muddle -- Why do Frenchmen? -- About games and being serious -- How much do you know? -- Why do things have outlines? -- Why a swan? -- What is an instinct? -- Part 2. Form and pattern in anthropology. Culture contact and schismogenesis -- Experiments in thinking about observed ethnological material -- Morale and national character -- Bali: the value system of a steady state -- Style, grace, and information in primitive art -- Comment on part 2 -- Part 3. Form and pathology in relationship. Social planning and the concept of deutero-learning -- A theory of play and fantasy -- Epidemiology of a schizophrenia -- Toward a theory of schizophrenia -- The group dynamics of schizophrenia -- Minimal requirements for a theory of schizophrenia -- Double bind, 1969 -- The logical categories of learning and communication -- The cybernetics of "self": a theory of alcoholism -- Comment on part 3