Similar words: double blind, double bed, double bass, double bond, double back, double boiler, double-barreled, double-barrelled. Meaning: n. (psychology) an unresolvable dilemma; situation in which a person receives contradictory messages from a person who is very powerful.
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(1) Women are caught in a double bind, marginalised in the community if they are not wives and mothers, under excessive pressure to be perfect if they are.
(2) He's in a double bind: he needs experience to get a job but he can't get experience without working.
(3) The company is caught in a double bind. If it doesn't modernize it won't make money, but if it does modernize they'll have to make people redundant because they won't need them any more.
(4) The headteacher is caught in a double bind because whether she expels the boy or lets him off, she still gets blamed.
(5) The company is caught in a double bind.If it doesn't modernise it won't make money, but if it does modernise they'll have to make people redundant because they won't need them any more.
(6) But now division heads are in a double bind.
(7) It offers an escape from the double bind of commentary pithily summarised by Foucault, in the passage I quoted just now.
(8) Exactly the same double bind is encountered in any theorization of racial difference.
(9) Thus is the reporter put in a classic double bind.
(10) Hence the double bind attached to being appropriately feminine rears its ugly head again.
(11) The economy is in a double bind.
(12) I'm caught in a double bind.
(13) ' This is something of a double bind as they have to say 'yes'.
(14) Double bind is a communicative situation where a person receives different or contradictory messages.
(15) And some books about double bind were found manually in the laboratory of Southwest University.
(16) Same as the double bind between the mother and son.
(17) Repeated experience. The double bind is a recurrent theme in the experience of the victim and as such cannot be constituted as a single traumatic experience.
(18) Double bind questions are questions that, whichever way you answer(sentencedict.com), the result is the same.
(19) The double bind may not always be so damaging, but it always endangers the mental health of anyone to whom it is applied.
(20) The non-helpers appeared to be caught in a double bind that locked them up.
(21) That puts American consumers in a double bind, paying at least some of producers' higher costs for making their goods, and higher prices on top of that because the dollar buys less in those countries.
(22) This is very similar to the double bind: "You must be free".
(23) This is not necessarily liberating: it may just be a double bind.
(24) A former book dealer, he remains seduced by the double bind of academic arcana and financial chicanery.
(25) Used together these two strategies comprise that peculiar language game known as a double bind.
(26) Blot: That sounds as if you think we're caught in a double bind from which there's no escape.
(27) If he eats the cake it could kill him, and it's stale (a symbol of it being an old pattern.) If he refuses it, it will anger his wife and she will reject him: a double bind.
(28) God is a Lobster, or a double pincer, a double bind.
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