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:''For other uses, see Bleuler (disambiguation).''
'Paul Eugen Bleuler' (
★ 30 April, 1857 - † 15 July, 1939[1]) was a Swiss psychiatrist most notable for his contributions to the understanding of mental illness and the naming of schizophrenia.
Bleuler was born in Zollikon, a small town near Zürich in Switzerland. He studied medicine in Zürich, and later studied in Paris, London and Munich after which he returned to Zürich to take a post as an intern at the Burghölzli, a university hospital.
In 1886 Bleuler became the director of a psychiatric clinic at Rheinau, a hospital located in an old monastery on an island in the Rhine. Rheinau was noted at the time for being backward, and Bleuler set about improving conditions for the patients resident there.
Bleuler returned to the Burghölzli in 1898 to be appointed director, where notably he employed Carl Jung as an intern.
Bleuler is particularly notable for naming ''schizophrenia'', a disorder which was previously known as ''dementia praecox''. Bleuler realised the condition was neither a dementia, nor did it always occur in young people (''praecox'' meaning early) and so gave the condition the purportedly less stigmatising but still controversial name from the Greek roots ''schizein'' (σχίζειν, "to split") and ''phrēn'', ''phren-'' (φρήν, φρεν-, "mind"). Bleuler treated celebrated Russian ballet dancer Vaslav Nijinsky after his breakdown in 1919.
Bleuler coined the New Latin word ''autismus'' (English translation ''autism'') in 1910 as he was defining symptoms of schizophrenia, deriving it from the Greek word ''autos'' (αὐτός, meaning ''self'').[2] According to the ''Critical Dictionary of Psychoanalysis'' by Charles Rycroft, it was Bleuler who introduced the term ''ambivalence'', in 1911.
1. Eugen Bleuler. www.whonamedit.com. URL: http://www.whonamedit.com/doctor.cfm/1294.html. Accessed on: May 2, 2007.
2. Eugen Bleuler's concepts of psychopathology, Kuhn R; tr. Cahn CH, , , Hist Psychiatry, The quote is a translation of Bleuler's 1910 original.
★ Eugen Bleuler - Encyclopedia Britannica.
★ Response to fellowship lecture on Eugen Bleuler - Comments by E.E. Krapf in the American Journal of Psychiatry (PMID 13458491).
:''For other uses, see Bleuler (disambiguation).''
'Paul Eugen Bleuler' (
★ 30 April, 1857 - † 15 July, 1939[1]) was a Swiss psychiatrist most notable for his contributions to the understanding of mental illness and the naming of schizophrenia.
Bleuler was born in Zollikon, a small town near Zürich in Switzerland. He studied medicine in Zürich, and later studied in Paris, London and Munich after which he returned to Zürich to take a post as an intern at the Burghölzli, a university hospital.
In 1886 Bleuler became the director of a psychiatric clinic at Rheinau, a hospital located in an old monastery on an island in the Rhine. Rheinau was noted at the time for being backward, and Bleuler set about improving conditions for the patients resident there.
Bleuler returned to the Burghölzli in 1898 to be appointed director, where notably he employed Carl Jung as an intern.
Bleuler is particularly notable for naming ''schizophrenia'', a disorder which was previously known as ''dementia praecox''. Bleuler realised the condition was neither a dementia, nor did it always occur in young people (''praecox'' meaning early) and so gave the condition the purportedly less stigmatising but still controversial name from the Greek roots ''schizein'' (σχίζειν, "to split") and ''phrēn'', ''phren-'' (φρήν, φρεν-, "mind"). Bleuler treated celebrated Russian ballet dancer Vaslav Nijinsky after his breakdown in 1919.
Bleuler coined the New Latin word ''autismus'' (English translation ''autism'') in 1910 as he was defining symptoms of schizophrenia, deriving it from the Greek word ''autos'' (αὐτός, meaning ''self'').[2] According to the ''Critical Dictionary of Psychoanalysis'' by Charles Rycroft, it was Bleuler who introduced the term ''ambivalence'', in 1911.
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References
1. Eugen Bleuler. www.whonamedit.com. URL: http://www.whonamedit.com/doctor.cfm/1294.html. Accessed on: May 2, 2007.
2. Eugen Bleuler's concepts of psychopathology, Kuhn R; tr. Cahn CH, , , Hist Psychiatry, The quote is a translation of Bleuler's 1910 original.
External links
★ Eugen Bleuler - Encyclopedia Britannica.
★ Response to fellowship lecture on Eugen Bleuler - Comments by E.E. Krapf in the American Journal of Psychiatry (PMID 13458491).
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