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double bind

The English word “double bind” has 1 meaning listed here.

noun

  1. A dilemma in which someone receives contradictory instructions and cannot act on either.

Etymology

Coined by English anthropologist, linguist, semiotician and cyberneticist Gregory Bateson.

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