In this Springer essential , Angelika Kutz examines how paradoxical double bind communication affects employees and organizations. The aim is to make transparent the self-esteem-destroying machinery and disease-promoting effect of the toxic communication pattern double bind. From the research findings, the author derives the following questions: Are Burnout and Organizational Burnout in truth Double Bind-induced work attachment and work relationship disorders? Does Double Bind and the relationship disorder based on it fuel the increasing loss of values and thus the self-destruction of the global Double Bind society?