“…In 1953 he assembled a research group, initially consisting of Jay Haley, John Weakland, William Fry, and Don Jackson, which marked the beginning of the "Palo Alto school" in psychiatry and psychotherapy (Haley, 1976;Lipset, 1980). This group further developed the concept of double bind, which finally led to a conceptualization of a communication pattern with the following four characteristics (Bateson, Jackson, Haley, & Weakland, 1956Sluzki & Veron, 1971;Watzlawick, 1963;Weakland, 1977):…”