Gregory Bateson and Cybernetics

Paul Tosey and Jane Mathison
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Paul Tosey: University of Surrey
Jane Mathison: University of Surrey

Chapter 8 in Neuro-Linguistic Programming, 2009, pp 85-96 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract John Grinder refers to living on a plot of land in the 1970s with Judith DeLozier, where ‘One of the amazing characters who we’ve crossed paths with was a tall, slope-shouldered Englishman by the name of Gregory Bateson’ (DeLozier & Grinder 1987:5). We have already referred to Gregory Bateson numerous times. Who was he, and what was his involvement with NLP? Significantly, Bateson provides a direct link between the founding of cybernetics in the 1940s and the origins of NLP.

Keywords: Circular Causality; Holmes Story; Electric Kettle; Mental Research Institute; Sherlock Holmes Story (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230248311_8

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