Gregory Bateson, who happened to be the husband of Margaret Mead, brought his anthropological interest in family process to a group of practitioner-scholars who would eventually develop a communications model for understanding schizophrenia. Their first paper posited that schizophrenia was the result of:

A. Postural positioning
B. Paradoxical directives
C. Double binds
D. Prescribing the symptom


ANS: C

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Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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