Editing Gregory Bateson (section)

==Career==
In 1928, Bateson lectured in linguistics at the [[University of Sydney]]. 
From 1931 to 1937, he was a Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge. He spent the years before [[World War II]] in the South Pacific in [[New Guinea]] and [[Bali]] doing anthropology.

In the 1940s, he helped extend [[systems theory]] and [[cybernetics]] to the social and behavioral sciences.
Although initially reluctant to join the intelligence services, Bateson served in the [[Office of Strategic Services|OSS]] during [[World War II]] along with dozens of other anthropologists.<ref name="currentconcerns.ch">Price, David H. (Dr.). [http://www.currentconcerns.ch/index.php?id=1110 "Gregory Bateson and the OSS: World War II and Bateson's Assessment of Applied Anthropology."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714163728/http://www.currentconcerns.ch/index.php?id=1110 |date=14 July 2014 }} currentconcerns.ch</ref> He was stationed in the same offices as [[Julia Child]] (then Julia McWilliams), [[Paul Cushing Child]], and others.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Conant|first1=Jennet|title=A Covert Affair: Julia Child and Paul Child in the OSS|url=https://archive.org/details/covertaffairjuli00cona|url-access=registration|date=2011|publisher=[[Simon and Schuster]]|page=[https://archive.org/details/covertaffairjuli00cona/page/43 43]|isbn=9781439163528}}</ref> He spent much of the war designing '[[black propaganda]]' radio broadcasts. He was deployed on covert operations in Burma and Thailand, and worked in China, India, and Ceylon as well. Bateson used his theory of [[schismogenesis]] to help foster discord among enemy fighters. He was upset by his wartime experience and disagreed with his wife over whether science should be applied to social planning or used only to foster understanding rather than action.<ref name="currentconcerns.ch"/>

In [[Palo Alto]], California, Bateson developed the [[double bind|double-bind]] theory, together with his non-colleagues [[Donald deAvila Jackson|Donald Jackson]], [[Jay Haley]] and [[John Weakland|John H. Weakland]], also known as the ''[[Bateson Project]]'' (1953–1963).<ref name="Bateson, G. 1956">{{Cite journal |last1=Bateson |first1=G. |last2=Jackson |first2=D. D. |last3=Haley |first3=J. |last4=Weakland |first4=J. |year=1956 |title=Toward a theory of schizophrenia |journal=[[Behavioral Science (journal)|Behavioral Science]] |volume=1 |issue= 4|pages=251–264 |doi=10.1002/bs.3830010402}}</ref>

In 1956, he became a [[naturalised citizen]] of the United States.

Bateson was one of the original members of the core group of the [[Macy conferences]] in [[cybernetics]] (1941–1960), and the later set on Group Processes (1954–1960), where he represented the social and behavioral sciences.

In the 1970s, he taught at the Humanistic Psychology Institute in San Francisco, which was renamed the [[Saybrook University]],<ref>{{cite book |last= Gordon |first= Susan |chapter= Editor's Introduction |title= Neurophenomenology and Its Applications to Psychology |editor= Susan Gordon |location= New York |publisher= [[Springer Publishing]] |year= 2013 |page= xxxii |isbn= 978-1-4614-7238-4}}</ref> and in 1972 joined the faculty of [[Kresge College]] at the [[University of California, Santa Cruz]].<ref>Per the jacket copy of the first edition of ''Mind and Nature'' (1979)</ref>

In 1976, he was elected a Fellow of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]].<ref name=AAAS>{{cite web |title=Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter B |url=http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterB.pdf |publisher=[[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]] |access-date=21 May 2011}}</ref> 
California Governor [[Jerry Brown]] appointed him to the [[Regents of the University of California]],<ref>{{cite web|title=The Regents of the University of California (list) |url=http://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/_documents/pdf/regentslistb.pdf |publisher=[[University of California]] |access-date=31 August 2014}}</ref> a position he held until his death, although he resigned from the Special Research Projects committee in 1979 in opposition to the university's work on [[nuclear weapons]].

Bateson spent the last decade of his life developing a "meta-science" of [[epistemology]] to bring together the various early forms of systems theory developed in different fields of science.<ref name="lipset1982">{{cite book | title=Gregory Bateson: Legacy of a Scientist | publisher=[[Prentice-Hall]] | author=Lipset, David | year=1980 | isbn=0133650561 | url=https://archive.org/details/gregorybatesonle00lipsrich| url-access=registration }}</ref>