Great context on one of my favorite thinkers. I learned something I hadn't seen in other profiles, his views on family therapy/double bind theory were influence

Great context on one of my favorite thinkers. I learned something I hadn't seen in other profiles, his views on family therapy/double bind theory were influenced by losing a sibling to suicide. Makes perfect sense. I wish Bateson hadn't been so averse to getting involved in the controversy over double bind/family therapy. I admire the high-mindedness and invitation to systemic change, but unfortunately without his advocacy his ideas have gotten largely ignored by the mainstream psychiatric community. This is a great quote: > To one accusation that he was not taking the organic aspect of the disease seriously, Bateson replied: I will concede that schizophrenia is as much a ‘disease’ of the ‘brain’ as it is a ‘disease’ of the ‘family’, if Dr Stevens will concede that humour and religion, art and poetry are likewise diseases of the brain or of the family or both.