Its other members were Donald deAvila Jackson, Jay Haley, John Weakland, and Bill Fry.
Perhaps their most famous and influential publication was Towards a Theory of Schizophrenia (1956),[1] which introduced the concept of the Double Bind, and helped found Family Therapy.
[2] One of the project's first locations was the Menlo Park VA Hospital, which was chosen because of Bateson's previous work there as an ethnologist.
[3] The initial research, which was funded by a Rockefeller grant,[3] focused on "strange communication" and nonsensical language among the patients of the institution who had schizophrenia.
[4] The group studied this within the context of double bind communication in family dynamics.