NOUN
- (psychology) an unresolvable dilemma; situation in which a person receives contradictory messages from a person who is very powerful
How To Use double bind In A Sentence
- He's in a double bind: he needs experience to get a job but he can't get experience without working.
- Used together these two strategies comprise that peculiar language game known as a double bind.
- A few survivors, precariously perched on sill-less windows, survey their double bind looking for perspective and vanishing points, a place to tip themselves over the edge in hopes defatigable winging. Kamikaze Birdsongs
- 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.
- Double bind questions are questions that, whichever way you answer, the result is the same.
- He's in a double bind: he needs experience to get a job but he can't get experience without working.
- A former book dealer, he remains seduced by the double bind of academic arcana and financial chicanery.
- 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.
- You seem to be in a double bind in that you can't really speak about defending yourself and yet the allegations against you seem to mount?
- Furthermore, welfare laws discourage states from providing assistance for abortions as well as to unwed mothers, placing low-income women in a double bind.
