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Definition of Double bind
1. Noun. (psychology) an unresolvable dilemma; situation in which a person receives contradictory messages from a person who is very powerful.
Definition of Double bind
1. Noun. A dilemma in which someone receives contradictory instructions and cannot act on either. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Double bind
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 individuals, resulting in a situation in which either compliance or noncompliance with either alternative threatens one of the needed relationships. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Double Bind
Literary usage of Double bind
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Urban Condition: space, community, and self in the contemporary metropolis by Ghent Urban Studies Team (1999)
"It is caught in a double bind: it has to be at once preserved and renewed. ...
No critic, as a result, can escape the double bind that comes with talking ..."
2. A Handbook of Practical Telegraphy by Richard Spelman Culley (1885)
"It is better to place a pole on each side of the bridge, and to double bind and
solder the wires to the insulators at these poles, and to double bind, ..."
3. A Handbook of Practical Telegraphy by Richard Spelman Culley (1874)
"It is better in turnpike- roads to place a pole on each side of the bridge, and
to double bind and solder the wires to the insulators at these poles, ..."
4. Webster's Common School Dictionary: A Dictionary of the English Language by Noah Webster (1892)
"Compounded of two ; double. Bind (bind), vt [imp. BOUND (bound) ; pp BOUND,
formerly BOUNDEN (bound"n) ; p. pr. BINDING.] To tie together ; to confine ..."
5. Missing Links: Gender Equity in Science and Technology for Development by Gender Working Group (1995)
"... 11 The "double bind" Women in small- and medium-sized enterprises Gillian M.
Marcelle and Merle Jacob Since the 1960s, technology has been an important ..."
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