At the end of a date, or when the night is heating up. “Shall we go somewhere else for one more drink?” “Why don’t we go to a ...

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, ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...