A double bind combines recurrent, consequential injunctions at incompatible communicative levels with barriers to escape or discussion. Analysis examines relationships, learning, and blocked metacommunication rather than labeling every contradiction. Structural rules may require change, and the construct must remain separate from diagnosis or an established explanation of schizophrenia.
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- DomainConversation & Relationships
What these mean
Editorial orientation · Family
Model
In this series, Model names the editorial family primarily used to understand and explain communication: theories, frameworks, effects, traditions, principles and other conceptual resources. It is an umbrella for a route into the field, not a claim that every included object is a predictive model.
Editorial orientation · Category
Theories & Explanatory Models
Explains how or why a communication process works by relating mechanisms, conditions or variables. Its value is an account that can guide inquiry into what produces an outcome, rather than a name for the outcome alone.