Wrote two famous books: Steps to an Ecology of Mind, and Mind & Nature.
With Don Jackson and John Weakland, the three became know as the "Palo Alto Group" and founded MRI (Mental Research Institute).
Gregory Bateson's MRI coined the term "Dysfunctional Family" in the 1950s to describe the cause of schizophrenia but ultimately this theory was found to be erroneous.
