xxii, 346 pages : 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index

"Bibliography of the published work of Gregory Bateson": pages 314-336

Cultural determinants of personality -- Human dignity and the varieties of civilization -- Sex and culture -- Naven: epilogue 1958 -- Distortions under culture contact -- Some components of socialization for trance -- From anthropology to epistemology -- The new conceptual frames for behavioral research -- Cultural problems posed by a study of schizophrenic process -- A social scientist views the emotions -- The message of reinforcement -- The double-bind theory: misunderstood? -- The growth of paradigms for psychiatry -- Mind/environment -- The thing of it is -- A formal approach to explicit, implicit, and embodied ideas, and to their forms of interaction -- The birth of a matrix, or double bind and epistemology -- The normative natural history called epistemology -- Our own metaphor: nine years after -- The science of knowing -- Men are grass: metaphor and the world of mental process -- Language and psychotherapy: Frieda Fromm-Reichmann's last project -- The moral and aesthetic structure of human adaptation -- A systems approach -- The creature and its creations -- Ecology of mind: the sacred -- Intelligence, experience, and evolution -- Orders of change -- The case against the case for mind/body dualism -- Symptoms, syndromes, and systems -- Seek the sacred: Dartington Seminar -- "Last lecture"