Geoffrey Bateson (3 results)

DVD. Condition: Used - Good.

First edition, first printing. Jointly written by a psychiatrist and an anthropologist, the book discusses the role of communication in linking individuals both to each other and to larger groups, and the implications of this for the practice of psychiatry and the discipline of sociology. "According to Ruesch and Bateson, the self that was the subject of psychiatry was enmeshed in and largely shaped by a complex web of information exchange. In keeping with Wiener's cybernetics, they viewed social life as a system of communication and the individual as both a key element within that system and a system in his or her own right" (Turner, pp. 53). This copy has the inked ownership signature to the title page, and a few pencilled annotations to the text, of the Czech-born psychiatrist Robert J. Weil (1909-2002), a founding member of the Canadian Psychiatric Association - "one of the many clinical psychiatrists of the 1930s who, in his research, displayed a profound interest in a great variety of psychiatric and related areas ranging from clinical nosology and psychoanalysis to the neuropathology and histology of the brain" (Stahnisch, p. 14). Fred Turner, From Counterculture to Cyberculture, 2006; Frank W. Stahnisch, A New Field in Mind, 2020. Octavo. Original brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With dust jacket. Slight bumping at extremities; jacket with light rubbing and soiling, slight wear at extremities, unclipped. A very good copy in very good jacket.

Condition: Good. Folio. 4pp. 37 x 28cm. Calligraphy on cover. Signatures on pp. 2 and 3.Losses of some signatures at to pand bottom.Schedule for the first fourteen weeks of the 1950 Shakespeare Festival; the Festival was under the direction of Anthony Quayle, and five plays were in the repertoire: MEASURE FOR MEASURE, KING HENRY VIII, MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, JULIUS CAESAR, and KING LEAR; the company consisted of:John Gielgud, Peggy Ashcroft, Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies, Leon Quartermaine, Anthony Quayle, Harry Andrews, Andrew Cruickshank, Rosalind Atkinson, Barbara Jefford, Alan Badel, Michael Gwynn, George Rose, Maxine Audley, Cecil Winter, Paul Hardwick, Nigel Green, Mairhi Russell, Evelyne Volney, Jean Short, Romany Evens, Michael Bates, Geoffrey Bayldon, Eric Lander, Robert Hardy, Richard Dare, David Lytton, John Money, Ronald Hines, Harold Siddons, Michael Atkinson, Peter Jackson, James Lund, Harold Kasket, Peter Norris, Robert Shaw, Timothy Bateson, John Dunbar, John Gay, Cyril Conway, Peter Halliday, Michael Ney, Ward Williams, David Woodman, Charles Lepper; the directors were Peter Brook, Tyrone Guthrie, Anthony Quayle, Michael Langham and John Gielgud; the designers were Peter Brook, Tanya Moiseiwitsch, Warwick Armstrong, Mariano Andreu, and Leslie Hu.Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies (1891-1992) played the following roles in 1950: Regan, King Lear, Royal Shakespeare Company 18th July 1950 (press night), Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon.Beatrice, Much Ado About Nothing, Royal Shakespeare Company 6th June 1950 (press night), Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon.Portia, Julius Caesar, Royal Shakespeare Company 2nd May 1950 (press night), Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon.Queen Katherine, Henry VIII, Royal Shakespeare Company 28th March 1950 (press night), Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon. .Appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in 1991,?at the age of 100.