Legacy: lessons from the Bateson team meetings
Wendel A. Ray
(Marriage and Family Therapy Program, The University of Louisiana at Monroe, Monroe, Louisiana, USA The Mental Research Institute, Palo Alto, California, USA)
Molly R. Govener
(Monroe, Louisiana, USA)
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Abstract
Purpose
To provide direct access to historically significant, original raw data from research conducted by the Bateson Team.
Design/methodology/approach
The approach taken is hermeneutic textual analysis.
Findings
The communication/interactional theory emerged from the interaction between members of the Bateson Research Team that took place between 1952 and 1961.
Originality/value
Decisively relevant to the origins of communication/interactional theory.
Keywords
Citation
Ray, W.A. and Govener, M.R. (2007), "Legacy: lessons from the Bateson team meetings", Kybernetes, Vol. 36 No. 7/8, pp. 1026-1036. https://doi.org/10.1108/03684920710777801
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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