Double bind

Gregory Bateson and his colleagues in Menlo Park, California, described the mechanism of the “double bind” as a source of schizophrenia, and with it they described a new psychic drama. A double bind, usually suffered by a child at the hands of its mother, results from living continually under the force of a pair of mutually contradictory demands, for instance: “I’m your mother, please love me”  but—unconsciously—“Don’t touch me.” 
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aq-238: the double bind ≈ xenosister