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A Sacred Unity: Further Steps to an Ecology of Mind

By Gregory Bateson; Rodney E. Donaldson

Book information

Publisher
HarperCollins
Year
1991
ISBN
0062501003, 9780062501004
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
10 MB (10684869 bytes)
Pages
367\367
Topic
Psychology
Time added
2019-08-24 05:43:17

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In 32 posthumously collected lectures, articles and essays, anthropologist Gregory Bateson (1904-1980) applies principles of cybernetics, which he helped develop, to psychiatry, the mind/body split, evolutionary biology and linguistics. Bateson discusses Balinese trance-dance, the dynamics of the schizophrenic family, cross-cultural contact and the need to reestablish a "sacred unity" between the human mind and the biosphere. Many of the pieces are technical or specialized; they range in provenance from 1942 to 1980; most were previously published. Donaldson, a former colleague of Bateson, has grouped the selections to roughly follow the sequence of Bateson's popular Steps to an Ecology of Mind. These essays explore those ideas and patterns within the human mind from a dynamic and holistic view of natural history and our species. Giving preference to subjectivity, Bateson rejects the traditional mind/body dualism but focuses on those relationships or differences within thought and perception. His research in zoology (dolphins), psychiatry (schizophrenia), and epistemology (the Iatmul of New Guinea) allowed for insights into culture and personality studies as well as contributions to the birth of cybernetics and systems theory. Bateson's worldview emphasizes the fact that our species is within an evolving environment and that human pathology must be seen in terms of a total vision of nature. Introduction by Rodney E. Donaldson Editor’s Note on the Selection and Arrangement of Material Part I: Form and Pattern in Anthropology 1. Cultural Determinants of Personality 2. Human Dignity and the Varieties of Civilization 3. Sex and Culture 4. Naven: Epilogue 1958 5. Distortions Under Culture Contact 6. Some Components of Socialization for Trance 7. From Anthropology to Epistemology Part II: Form and Pathology in Relationship 8. The New Conceptual Frames for Behavioral Research 9. Cultural Problems Posed by a Study of Schizophrenic Process 10. A Social Scientist Views the Emotions 11. The Message of Reinforcement 12. The Double-Bind Theory—Misunderstood? 13. The Growth of Paradigmsfor Psychiatry Part III: Epistemology and Ecology 14. Mind/Environment 15. The Thing of It Is 16. A Formal Approach to Explicit, Implicit, and Embodied Ideas, and to Their Forms of Interaction 17. The Birth of a Matrix, or Double Bind and Epistemology 18. This Normative Natural History Called Epistemology 19. Our Own Metaphor: Nine Years After 20. The Science of Knowing 21. Men Are Grass: Metaphor and the World of Mental Process Part IV: Health, Ethics, Aesthetics, and the Sacred 22. Language and Psychotherapy—Frieda Fromm-Reichmann’s Last Project 23. The Moral and Aesthetic Structure of Human Adaptation 24. A Systems Approach 25. The Creature and Its Creations 26. Ecology of Mind: The Sacred 27. Intelligence, Experience, and Evolution 28. Orders of Change 29. The Case Against the Case for Mind/Body Dualism 30. Symptoms, Syndromes, and Systems 31. Seek the Sacred: Dartington Seminar 32. “Last Lecture” Bibliography of the Published Work of Gregory Bateson

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