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
- 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.
- The non-helpers appeared to be caught in a double bind that locked them up.
- 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.
- He's in a double bind: he needs experience to get a job but he can't get experience without working.
- ' This is something of a double bind as they have to say 'yes'.
- The headteacher is caught in a double bind because whether she expels the boy or lets him off, she still gets blamed.
- Hence the double bind attached to being appropriately feminine rears its ugly head again.
- 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.
- It offers an escape from the double bind of commentary pithily summarised by Foucault, in the passage I quoted just now.
- Thus is the reporter put in a classic double bind.