Jurgen ruesch and gregory bateson biography
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Gregory Bateson
British-American psychological anthropologist (1904–1980)
Gregory Bateson | |
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Rudolph Arnheim (L) and Bateson (R) speaking at the American Federation of Arts 48th Annual Convention, 1957 Apr 6 / Eliot Elisofon, photographer | |
| Born | (1904-05-09)9 May 1904 Grantchester, England |
| Died | 4 July 1980(1980-07-04) (aged 76) San Francisco, California, U.S. |
| Known for | Double bind, ecology of mind, deuterolearning, schismogenesis |
| Spouses | Margaret Mead (m. 1936; div. 1950)Elizabeth Sumner (m. 1951; div. 1957)Lois Cammack (m. 1961) |
| Children | 5, including Mary C. Bateson |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Anthropology, social sciences, linguistics, cybernetics, systems theory |
Gregory Bates
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Gregory Bateson
Bateson with Margaret Mead in the late 1930s. Photo by C. H. Waddington. | |
| Born | May 9, 1904(1904-05-09) Grantchester, United Kingdom |
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| Died | April 14, 1980(1980-04-14) (aged 78) San Francisco, United States |
| Web | Aaaaarg, Wikipedia, Academia.edu, Open Library |
Gregory Bateson was an English anthropologist, social scientist, linguist, visual anthropologist, semiotician and cyberneticist whose work intersected that of many other fields.
He was born in 1904 as the third and youngest son of [Caroline] Beatrice Durham and the geneticist William Bateson. Resisting family pressures to follow in his father's footsteps, he completed his degree in anthropology instead of natural science, and left England to do field work in New Guinea. It was on his second trip there, in 1956, that he met his fellow anthropologist Margaret Mead, whom he later married; their only child, Mary Catherine Bateson, is also an anthropologist. Bateson and Mead were divorced in
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Jurgen Ruesch
Jurgen Ruesch (born Jürgen Rüsch; November 9, 1909[1] – July 8, 1995)[2] was an American psychiatrist.
Life
[edit]Jurgen Ruesch was born in Naples, Italy, to Swiss parents. He studied at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, and moved to San Francisco in 1943 to head a project at the newly opened Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute of the University of California, San Francisco. He remained as professor at the University of California until his retirement in 1977; he also maintained a private psychiatric practice.[2]
Work
[edit]A 1948 study of his cataloged ways in which sick patients were poorly adapted to their social environments. This had an influence on the study of psychosomatic illness and stress, emphasizing the role of patients' inability to adapt to environmental situations, rather than focusing on internal psychic conflict, as had been the approach of Franz Alexander.[3]
Ruesch's work continued aroun