Salt (and sugar) Tax

[Serial_Apologist]

I missed the congress and only got the book. Even that, I only got because the organisation I was then associated with was so condemnatory of the congress. Though very much a Bateson 'fan'. I always associated the double-bind more with his fellow participant R D Laing. Perhaps I am getting tied up in knots.

Very good, Bryn - I hope we're not the only ones on this forum who "get" the connection.

The Congress was over mkore than one day iirc. I attended part of one day and was lucky, not only to hear Bateson speak, but to get the book when it came out, which I still have (with most of its pages). I think Laing popularised the double bind theory, but after Bateson thought it up. I should check, really.