Re(2): ethics of double bind situations

From: Diane Hodges (dhodges@ceo.cudenver.edu)
Date: Mon Apr 30 2001 - 11:53:27 PDT


Yrjo writes
>Double bind situations emerge in activities whether we
>researchers/interventionists want it or not. In carefully designed and
>conducted interventions, those double binds can be simulated and worked
>out
>in safer and more supportive conditions than in the brute everyday.

how is this "controlled?" i've been in situations where a person's belief
system is collapsed when faced with contradiction: learning about
foundationalism, for example, and experiencing the implications with
regards to personal Christian beliefs,
and the fear and confusion - unintentional, really. and in a group of
adults, this man was the only one who expressed the crisis of the
contradiction,
- no one was prepared to deal with it, or provide responses that could
make the rupture something other than a trauma -
how can anyone anticipate, let alone control the crisis in other's
experiences?
diane

"my doctor says i wouldn't have so many nosebleeds if i would just keep my
finger out of there. "
Ralph Wiggums.



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