Bateson's final work, the posthumous collection "A Sacred Unity: Further Steps to an Ecology of Mind" edited by Rodney E. Donaldson is sadly out of print.
This work is staggering in it's range and complexity. In the interest of generating interest in his final book, there is a Table of Contents, to give a better idea of it's scope. Published: Cornelia & Michael Bessie Book, NY, 1991.
CONTENTS:
Part I: Form and Pattern in Anthropology
1. Cultural Determinants of Personality (1942)
2. Human Dignity and the Varieties of Civilization (1942)
3. Sex and Culture (1946)
4. Naven: Epilogue 1958 (1958)
5. Distortions Under Culture Contact (1971)
6. Some Components of Socialization for Trance (1974)
7. From Anthropology to Epistemology (1976)
Part II: Form and Pathology in Relationship
8. The New Conceptual Frames for Behavioral Research (1958)
9. Cultural Problems Posed by a Study of Schizophrenic Process (1958)
10. A Social Scientist Views the Emotions (1960)
11. The Message of Reinforcement (1966)
12. The Double-Bind Theory -- Misunderstood? (1977)
13. The Growth of Paradigms for Psychiatry (1977)
Part III: Epistemology and Ecology
14. Mind/Environment (1969)
15. The Thing of It Is (1975)
16. A Formal Approach to Explicit, Implicit and Embodied Ideas, and to Their Forms of Interaction (1976)
17. The Birth of a Matrix, or Double Bind and Epistemology (1977)
18. This Normative Natural History Called Epistemology (1977)
19. Our Own Metaphor: Nine Years After (1977)
20. The Science of Knowing (1979)
21. Men Are Grass: Metaphor and the World of Mental Process (1980)
Part IV: Health, Ethics, Aesthetics, and the Sacred
22. Language and Psychotherapy -- Freida Fromm-Reichmann's Last Project (1957)
23. The Moral and Aesthetic Structure of Human Adaptation (1968)
24. A Systems Approach (1971)
25. The Creature and Its Creations (1974)
26. Ecology of Mind: The Sacred (1974)
27. Intelligence, Experience, and Evolution (1975)
28. Orders of Change (1975)
29. The Case Against the Case for Mind/Body Dualism (1976)
30. Symptoms, Syndromes, and Systems (1978)
31. Seek the Sacred: Dartington Seminar (1979)
32. "Last Lecture" (1979)
