IONI — Institute of NLP India

Double Bind

A communicative structure in which every apparent option confirms the framing — Erickson's therapeutic version offered choices that all led toward change.

"Would you like to notice the change now, or as you relax further?" — either answer presupposes the change and the relaxing. Therapeutically powerful, ethically loaded: consent and benefit must genuinely align, or it is manipulation with better grammar.

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ShriViral Manek, Institute of NLP India · reviewed 30 Sept 2026