Cover -- CONTENTS -- Editorial advisory board -- Preface -- Still not paradigmatic -- Adaptation, acclimation, addiction, remedy, etc. -- Bateson's cybernetics: the basis of MRI brief therapy: prologue -- The influence of Gregory Bateson: legacy or vestige? -- Batesonian epistemology, Bushman n/om-kxaosi, and rock art -- Toward Batesonian sociocybernetics: from Naven to the mind beyond the skin -- Gregory Bateson in contemporary cross-cultural systemic psychotherapy -- Caught in the middle of a double-bind: the application of non-ordinary logic to therapy -- Practicising psychotherapy employing Gregory Bateson's epistemological models -- Towards aesthetic seduction using emotional engagement and stories -- Still disturbing -- Struggling for a Russian Bateson -- Batesonian analysis of value hierarchies and the transformation of Russia -- Human robustness and conscious purpose in contemporary medicine -- Reflections on learning and addiction: porpoises and palm trees -- "The logical categories of learning and communication": reconsidered from a polycontextural point of view -- Looking for "scientific" social science -- The two beginnings of communication theory -- Legacy: lessons from the Bateson team meetings -- Language games and (hi)stories: Wittgenstein, Bateson and Schapp on the role of language in therapy -- Second thoughts on Gregory Bateson and Alfred Korzybski -- Primary natural relationship: Bateson, Rosen, and the Vedas -- Toward a science of metapatterns: building upon Bateson's foundation -- Choreography: a pattern language -- How G. Bateson informs dogs -- Maps of maps -- Metalogue: "less than one and more than two: developing a partiality for whole(some)ness" -- How to understand giants? -- Fictional communication: developing Gregory Bateson's "Theory of Play and Fantasy" -- Bateson and the Arts.

What would Bateson's work look like today? -- Slippery rigor.