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double-bind

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double-bind,
n a hypnotic technique in which conflicting messages are communicated to the patient at the same time.


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The once-weekly formulation approved today was confirmed as safe and effective as the once-daily formulation in the phase III double-bind comparative studies conducted in Japan.
In the fifteen essays presented, along with a small set of annotated maps and a chart, the contributors take up specific, local conditions, such as the tenuous position of live-in maids and nannies in Los Angeles County, the double-bind of migrant domestics in Taiwan, and the plight of sex workers in the Dominican Republic.
Stephens marvelously teases out the double-bind witchcraft theorists found themselves in: aware that contact with demons was morally wrong, they nevertheless craved contact in order to reassure themselves that demons were real; insisting on the reality of demons, they also had to rigorously repress their own doubts.
 
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