Watching Nora Bateson's new film about her famed father's work, An Ecology of Mind, I was reminded of the concept of the double bind—an idea that has been central to family therapy since its earliest ...

A double bind is typically a situation where you’re only given negative choices with negative consequences but you still feel forced to choose one of them. One major component of my mental health ...

Damned if you do, damned if you don't. How many times have you heard this? More importantly, how many times have you said it about a situation you were in? This is called a double bind: the feeling ...

I have embodied the double bind women face in leadership many a time throughout my decade in the corporate world. And I worked for progressive women who wanted to see other women succeed, so ladies, ...

The Revised Common Lectionary this week gave us an attempted double bind by the disciples James and John. It is a classic example of people believing too much in their own cleverness. “James and John, ...

For too long, women in leadership have been told to walk a tightrope between being too strong and too soft, too assertive and too accommodating. This is the Double Bind—the paradox that says if you ...

Medical technology is often viewed as a neutral tool for healing or curing; however, for many disabled people, it represents a complex power dynamic between their own lived experiences and clinical ...

I doubt John Boehner has read much feminist theory, but it’s never too late for him to start. He and other GOP leaders, not to mention the Republicans who want to run for president in 2016, might want ...