A double bind is an emotionally distressing dilemma in communication in which an individual (or group) receives two or more conflicting messages, and one message negates the other. This creates a situation in which a successful response to one message results in a failed response to the other (and vice versa), so that the person will automatically...
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A type of personal interaction in which one receives two mutually conflicting verbal or nonverbal instructions or demands from the same person or different individuals, resulting in a situation in which either compliance or noncompliance with either alternative threatens one of the needed relationships. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
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(dub´әl bīnd´) a type of paradoxical communication or interaction in which one person demands a response to a message that contains mutually contradictory signals (verbal or nonverbal). The other person is unable to comment on the incongruity or to escape the situation.
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Interaction in which one person demands a response to a message containing mutually contradictory si
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Type: Term Definitions: 1. a type of personal interaction in which one receives two mutually conflicting verbal or nonverbal instructions or demands from the same person or different people, resulting in a situation in which either compliance or noncompliance with either alternative threatens one of the needed relationships. &nb...
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n] - (psychology) an unresolvable dilemma
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noun (psychology) an unresolvable dilemma; situation in which a person receives contradictory messages from a person who is very powerful
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a situation in which a person is given conflicting cues, esp. by a parent, such that to obey one cue is to disobey the other. · dilemma (def. 1).
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an unresolvable dilemma
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