How G. Bateson informs dogs

Men are grass: Bateson, Erickson, utilization and metaphor.

The relationship between metaphor and the practice of utilization in therapy and hypnosis can be seen as dependent on metaphor's role in structuring experience. The work of Gregory Bateson and others is used to illustrate how metaphor functions. Bateson's comparison of two forms of syllogistic logic provides a background for distinguishing between the experiential effects of metaphor in contras...

Physical Thinking and Social Problems.

The stimulus as basis for audiovisual integration

We argue here that examination of the stimulus source is a prerequisite to understanding how audiovisual (AV) stimuli are processed perceptually. This is based on mounting evidence that the act of speech production generates mutlimodal events whose audible and visible components are highly correlated with each other and the vocal tract source. How this multimodal structuring is exploited percep...

The postural dynamics of a psychoanalytical process

Postural dynamics is a model and a coding system that allows researchers to scan the postural dimensions of any interaction. In this paper I will show how this model can be used to scan complex dimensions in a psychotherapeutic interaction, and to clarify some of the issues involved. I shall use Beatrice Beebe's published psychoanalytical case study of Dolores as a concrete example to show that...

Gregory Bateson and the Promise of Transdisciplinarity

Gregory Bateson was a thinker beyond disciplines, contributing not only to specific disciplines ranging from Communication to Family Therapy to Ecology, but also helping us to think about the nature of inquiry, thought and disciplinary organization. In this paper I argue Bateson was a transdisciplinary thinker, and illustrate how his work can lead us to a new approach to inquiry. I conclude by ...