While at Stanford, Haley met the anthropologist Gregory Bateson who invited him to join a communications research project that later became known as The Bateson Project, a collaboration that became one of the driving factors in the creation of family therapy and that published the single most important paper in the history of family therapy, " Towards a Theory of Schizophrenia.

" The central members of this Project were Gregory Bateson, Donald deAvila Jackson, Jay Haley, John Weakland, and Bill Fry.

While at MRI, Jay continued the professional relationship with Milton Erickson that had been established in the earliest years of the Bateson Project.

In Communication: The Social Matrix of Psychiatry, Jurgen Ruesch and Gregory Bateson argue that intrapersonal communication is indeed a special case of interpersonal communication, as " dialogue is the foundation for all discourse.

Bateson thinks of the mind neither as an autonomous metaphysical force nor as a mere neurological function of the brain, but as a " dehierarchized concept of a mutual dependency between the ( human ) organism and its ( natural ) environment, subject and object, culture and nature ", and thus as " a synonym for a cybernetic system of information circuits that are relevant for the survival of the species.

The film has been adapted for radio, including a version produced on BBC Radio 4 featuring Robert Powell and Timothy Bateson ( first broadcast in 1990 ), and another for BBC7 featuring Michael Kitchen as Mazzini and Harry Enfield as the D ' Ascoyne family.

Elsewhere in that same volume, Bateson points out that the usefulness of a map ( a representation of reality ) is not necessarily a matter of its literal truthfulness, but its having a structure analogous, for the purpose at hand, to the territory.

Michael was criticized for citing the research of Sir Patrick Bateson as " incontrovertible proof " of the need for a total ban.

Mary Catherine Bateson is a fellow of the International Leadership Forum and was president of the Institute for Intercultural Studies in New York until 2010.

It was created on 18 November 1885 for the Conservative Member of Parliament Sir Thomas Bateson, 2nd Baronet.

A Legacy for Living Systems: Gregory Bateson as a Precursor to Biosemiotics.

In his 1894 book, " Materials for the study of variation ", Bateson took this survey of biological variation significantly further.

Importantly, Bateson wrote, " The only way in which we may hope to get at the truth the mechanism of biological Heredity is by the organization of systematic experiments in breeding, a class of research that calls perhaps for more patience and more resources than any other form of biological enquiry.

Critically, Bateson gave a lecture to the Royal Horticultural Society in July 1899full text, which was attended by Hugo de Vries, in which he describes his investigations into discontinuous variation, his experimental crosses, and the significance of such studies for the understanding of Heredity.

The concept of schismogenesis was developed by the anthropologist Gregory Bateson in the 1930s, to account for certain forms of social behavior between groups.

Renting an apartment in nearby Point Richmond, California, Kees took a job at the Langley Porter Psychiatric Clinic at the University of California, San Francisco, where he worked alongside the anthropologist Gregory Bateson making data films for a study of nonverbal communication.

Karl G. Heider notes in his revised edition of Ethnographic Film ( 2006 ) that after Bateson and Mead, the history of visual anthropology is defined by " the seminal works of four men who were active for most of the second half of the twentieth century: Jean Rouch, John Marshall, Robert Gardner, and Tim Asch.

Willam Bateson in 1884 finally formally distinquished between the emergent origin of novel variations and the action of natural selection ( Materials for the Study of Variation Treated with Especial Regard to Discontinuity in the Origin of Species ) ( Reid, p. 3-4 )

T. J. Bateson ’ s new body of work, Veiled In Plain Sight, was created specifically for Midsumma celebrating the relaunch of Tacit Contemporary Art in Abbotsford.

* Program for the Bateson conference, which took place at the CUNY Graduate Center and the Lawrence Hall of Science, UC Berkeley

There may have been some professional jealousy, as Bateson did receive a letter from Hurst in which he was urged to " read and digest the new Cuénot ", work which explained some results in the field of mouse genetics, results which had been confusing for Bateson.

In contrast to Mendel's notion that traits are independently assorted when passed from parent to child — for example that a cat's hair color and its tail length are inherited independent of each other — Bateson and Punnett showed that certain genes associated with physical traits can be inherited together, or genetically linked.

Through Bateson, Erickson met Jay Haley, Richard Bandler and John Grinder, amongst others, and had a profound influence on them all.

The term double bind was first used by the anthropologist Gregory Bateson and his colleagues ( including Don D. Jackson, Jay Haley and John H. Weakland ) in the mid-1950s in their discussions on complexity of communication in relation to schizophrenia.

Their work in the early 1980s built on that of a number of other innovators, among them Milton Erickson, and the group at the Mental Research Institute at Palo Alto – Gregory Bateson, Donald deAvila Jackson, Paul Watzlawick, John Weakland, Virginia Satir, Jay Haley, Richard Fisch, Janet Beavin Bavelas and others.

Among his modern influences he counts the works of William James, John Dewey, Ernst Kretschmer, William Sheldon, Jay Haley, Gregory Bateson, Max Wertheimer, Wolfgang Kohler, Raymond Wheeler, Erich Fromm, Alfred Adler, Rudolf Dreikurs, Milton Erickson, and Erving Goffman.

He knew well and was in conversation with John von Neumann, Norbert Wiener, Humberto Maturana, Francisco Varela, Gordon Pask, Gregory Bateson, Lawrence J. Fogel and Margaret Mead, among many others.

* St. John, Natalie and Mildred Mellor Bateson ( 1928 ).

Speakers included James Lovelock, George Wald, Mary Catherine Bateson, Lewis Thomas, John Todd, Donald Michael, Christopher Bird, Thomas Berry, Michael Cohen, and William Fields.

Distinguished early faculty members included Gregory Bateson, former husband of Margaret Mead and author of Steps to an Ecology of Mind ; Phil Slater, author of The Pursuit of Loneliness ; John Grinder, co-founder of Neuro-linguistic programming and co-author of The Structure of Magic ; and William Everson, one of the Beat poets.

The John Innes Centre holds a Bateson Lecture in his honour at the annual John Innes Symposium.

" It introduced a number of topics and works by authors including, " The Gaia hypothesis, watershed consciousness, voluntary simplicity, personal computers, the flat tax, the effects of chemicals on the human gene pool ; the ideas and stories of Amory Lovins, John Todd, Christopher Alexander, Donella Meadows, beat poets Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Michael McClure ( who edited an issue ), Paul Ehrlich, Ken Kesey, Gary Snyder, R. Crumb, Mary Catherine Bateson, Gregory Bateson, Admiral Hyman Rickover, James Baldwin, Sallie Tisdale, Ivan Illich, Paul Hawken, Kevin Kelly, Howard Rheingold, Anne Herbert.

* John Bateson, Chief Executive of AMEC from 1988 – 95 ;

Their children were John Minor, Henry Miner, Elizabeth Bush, Rebecca Bateson, Barbara Houser, Nathan Miner and Sarah Miner.

Lord Belmore married Anne Elizabeth Honoria Gladstone, daughter of Captain John Neilson Gladstone, MP, the son of Sir John Gladstone, 1st Baronet, and Elizabeth Honoria Bateson, the daughter of Sir Robert Bateson, 1st Bt.

The cybernetician and anthropologist Gregory Bateson would observe in the 1970s that though seeing it only as an illustration, Wallace had " probably said the most powerful thing that ’ d been said in the 19th century ".

The cybernetician and anthropologist Gregory Bateson would observe in the 1970s that though seeing it only as an illustration, Wallace had " probably said the most powerful thing that ’ d been said in the 19th century ".

Batson did record in a letter that on meeting Cuénot in December 1905 Cuénot " insisted that the yellow colour of mouse fur was dominant to agouti ( grey )" fur colour, and that Bateson found Cuénot " a dull man ".

She had studied ethnographic footage by Gregory Bateson in Bali in 1947, and was interested in including it in her next film.

Along with McLuhan, Postman, and Anton, media ecology draws from many authors, including the work of Harold Innis, Walter Ong, Lewis Mumford, Jacques Ellul, Eric Havelock, Susanne Langer, Erving Goffman, Edward T. Hall, George Herbert Mead, Margaret Mead, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Benjamin Lee Whorf, and Gregory Bateson.

JIC also sponsors seminars and lectures, including the Bateson Lecture.

The study was joined by several other anthropologists, including Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson.

A stream of famous visitors, including Charlie Chaplin and the anthropologists Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead, encouraged the talented locals to create highly original works.

This view was expressed in the writings of key founders of genetics, including Thomas Hunt Morgan, Reginald Punnett, Wilhelm Johannsen, Hugo de Vries, William Bateson and others.