Medical Term:

double bind

 

Definition: a type of personal interaction in which one receives two mutually conflicting verbal or nonverbal instructions or demands from the same person or different people, resulting in a situation in which either compliance or noncompliance with either alternative threatens one of the needed relationships.

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Examples: glitazone, GI cocktail, etc.

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