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Steps to an Ecology of Mind is a collection of Gregory Bateson's short works over his long and varied career. Subject matter includes essays on anthropology, cybernetics, psychiatry, and epistemology. It was originally published by Ballantine Books in 1972 (republished 2000 with foreword by Mary Catherine Bateson).[1]

Steps to an Ecology of Mind
First edition (p/b)
AuthorGregory Bateson
SubjectAnthropology, Cybernetics
PublisherChandler Publishing Company

Publication date

1972
Pages542
ISBN0-226-03905-6
OCLC42309905

The book begins with a series of metalogues, which take the form of conversations with his daughter Mary Catherine Bateson. The metalogues are mostly thought exercises with titles such as "What is an Instinct" and "How Much Do You Know." In the metalogues, the playful dialectic structure itself is closely related to the subject matter of the piece.

Part I: Metalogues

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DEFINITION: A metalogue is a conversation about some problematic subject. This conversation should be such that not only do the participants discuss the problem but the structure of the conversation as a whole is also relevant to the same subject. Only some of the conversations here presented achieve this double format.

Notably, the history of evolutionary theory is inevitably a metalogue between man and nature, in which the creation and interaction of ideas must necessarily exemplify evolutionary process.[2]

Part II: Form and Pattern in Anthropology

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Part II is a collection of anthropological writings, many of which were written while he was married to Margaret Mead.

Part III: Form and Pathology in Relationship

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Part III is devoted to the theme of "Form and Pathology in Relationships." His essay on alcoholism examines the alcoholic state of mind, and the methodology of Alcoholics Anonymous within the framework of the then-nascent field of cybernetics.

Part IV: Biology and Evolution

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Part V: Epistemology and Ecology.

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Part VI: Crisis in the Ecology of Mind

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See also

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Notes and references

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  1. ^ Bateson, Gregory (1972). Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0-226-03905-6.
  • ^ Steps To an Ecology of Mind

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