According to Bateson and his colleagues, all behavior can be viewed as communication, but the rules ... Particular attention is paid to triangles, or three-way relationship dynamics, and the process of circular causality, the multiple transactions between family members and how each interaction impacts other interactions.
www.glbtq.com/social-sciences/family_therapy.html
To summarize a major difference between Bateson and a Cartesian way of thinking: the former emphasizes relationships and circular causality (the pat- ...
www.jstor.org/stable/1320634
Bateson's epistemology of lineal and circular causality .... For their part, clinicians have been willing to validate Bateson's circular-causal point of ...
doi.wiley.com/10.1111/j.1545-5300.1986.00513.x
I would like now to trace out some consequences of placing "circular causality" at the very heart of the cybernetic enterprise. ... What von Foerster and others (Bateson, Pask, Maturana) have done is reveal and explain the observer to himself.
www.thehope.org/Bernard_Scott/Causality.html www.thehope.org/Bernard_Scott/Causality.html
Circular causality – Gregory Bateson pioneered a conceptual shift that was pivotal to family systems thinking, the shift from linear to circular causality ; In this model actions are merely invitations which prompt a circular sequence of actions each of which recursively affects the other ;
rfeller.tripod.com/Nichols3and4.html
Bateson, Gregory: applied cybernetic principles to human communications. "Information is a difference that makes a difference." Big influence ... Circular (mutual, reciprocal) causality: when things cause each other rather than just one causing the other (linear causality). Emphasizes present, process over past, content.
www.terrapsych.com/family.html
e. Bateson - introduced concept to family therapy - movement from linear circular causality ... 4. Therapists focus on the feelings associated with problems, not the causality to begin questioning about what’s at the root of the problem...
www.psych.ku.edu/dennisk/FamilyRx/N_S_1_8.html
Total doc (PDF File)
The novel approach afforded by a family systems theory to serial murder would resist interpreting the phenomenon within the framework of linear causality, ... Family systems’ approaches, with their emphasis on “circular causality” (Bateson, 1979), would be of particular use to those groups and individuals who could...
upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-11222006-141729/unr... upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-11222006-141729/unrestricted/01chapter1.pdf
CHASING THE BLAME (PDF File)
And there is the notion, closely related to the circularity of control, of circular causality. If cause and effect are truly linear, Juvenal’s question again appears and again and again and… Where does the buck stop?
www.univie.ac.at/constructivism/papers/glanville/glanvi... www.univie.ac.at/constructivism/papers/glanville/glanville95-chasing.pdf
A coupled system is one that has multiple (at least two) processes and that the outputs of some processes are the inputs for other processes (in what Bateson calls a "circular chain of causality," 2002, p. 86ff). To speak clearly of the implications coupled nonlinear systems requires a distinction in levels of analysis.
www.psych.utah.edu/stat/dynamic_systems/Content/example... www.psych.utah.edu/stat/dynamic_systems/Content/examples/TAO/ISSS_06_Mapping-Bateson/Malloy_Mapping-Bateson.xhtml