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Eugen Bleuler

Born

in Zollikon, Switzerland

April 30, 1857

Died

July 15, 1939

Website

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugen_Bleuler

Genre

Science, Psychology, Psychiatry

Influences

Sigmund Freud, Hermann Rorschach, Ludwig Binswanger, Carl Jung, Franz ...more

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Paul Eugen Bleuler (April 30, 1857 – July 15, 1939) was a Swiss psychiatrist most notable for his contributions to the understanding of mental illness and for coining the terms "schizophrenia", "schizoid", "autism", and what Sigmund Freud called "Bleuler's happily chosen term ambivalence".

Bleuler was born in Zollikon, a big town near Zürich in Switzerland, to Johann Rudolf Bleuler, a wealthy farmer, and Pauline Bleuler-Bleuler. He studied medicine in Zürich and following his graduation in 1881 he worked as a medical assistant to Gottlieb Burckhardt at the Waldau Psychiatric Clinic in Bern. Leaving this post in 1884 he spent one year on medical study trips to Jean-Martin Charcot in Paris, to Bernhard von Gudden in Munich and to London. There Paul Eugen Bleuler (April 30, 1857 – July 15, 1939) was a Swiss psychiatrist most notable for his contributions to the understanding of mental illness and for coining the terms "schizophrenia", "schizoid", "autism", and what Sigmund Freud called "Bleuler's happily chosen term ambivalence".

Bleuler was born in Zollikon, a big town near Zürich in Switzerland, to Johann Rudolf Bleuler, a wealthy farmer, and Pauline Bleuler-Bleuler. He studied medicine in Zürich and following his graduation in 1881 he worked as a medical assistant to Gottlieb Burckhardt at the Waldau Psychiatric Clinic in Bern. Leaving this post in 1884 he spent one year on medical study trips to Jean-Martin Charcot in Paris, to Bernhard von Gudden in Munich and to London. Thereafter 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. It 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 where he was appointed director.

Following his interest in hypnotism, especially in its "introspective" variant, Bleuler became interested in Sigmund Freud's work, favorably reviewing Josef Breuer and Sigmund Freud's Studies on Hysteria. Like Freud, Bleuler believed that complex mental processes could be unconscious. He encouraged his staff at the Burghölzli to study unconscious and psychotic mental phenomena. Influenced by Bleuler, Carl Jung and Franz Riklin used word association tests to integrate Freud's theory of repression with empirical psychological findings. As a series of letters demonstrates (published in English in 2003), Bleuler performed from 1905 a self-analysis with Freud.

He found Freud's movement to be over-dogmatic and resigned from the International Psychoanalytic Association in 1911, writing to Freud that "this 'all or nothing' is in my opinion necessary for religious communities and useful for political parties...but for science I consider it harmful". Bleuler remained interested in Freud's work, citing him favourably, for example, in his often reprinted Textbook of Psychiatry (1916).

Bleuler also explored the concept of moral idiocy, and the relationship between neurosis and alcoholism. He followed Freud in seeing sexuality as a potent influence upon anxiety, pondered on the origins of the sense of guilt, and studied the process of what he termed switching (the affective shift from love to hate, for example).

Bleuler was known for his clinical observation and willingness to let symptoms speak for themselves, as well as for his skilful expository writings. ...more

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	Dementia Praecox or the Group of Schizophrenias 4.42 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1966 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The theory of schizophrenic negativism 4.11 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2010 — 58 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Textbook of Psychiatry 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1916 — 47 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Afectividad, sugestibilidad y paranoia it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1906 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Die Psychanalyse Freuds: Verteidigung und kritische Bemerkungen. it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Il pensiero autistico it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Textbook of psychiatry it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Die Psychoide: Als Prinzip der Organischen Entwicklung 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1925 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Physisch und Psychisch in der Pathologie: Nach einem Vortrag, gehalten in der Gesellschaft der Ärzte in Zürich in der Sitzung vom 30. Januar 1915 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1916 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Zwangsmässige lichtempfindungen durch Schall: Verwandte Erscheinungen auf dem Gebiet der andern Sinnesempfindungen by Eugen Bleuler, Karl Lehmann 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Das unangenehmste aller Symptome bei Schizophrenie ist der Selbstmordtrieb. Ich führe das deswegen an, um einmal deutlich zu sagen, daß die jetzige Gesellschaftsordnung in dieser Richtung vom Psychiater eine große und ganz unangebrachte Grausamkeit verlangt. Man zwingt Leute, denen aus guten Gründen das Leben verleidet ist, weiter zu leben; das ist schon schlimm genug. Aber ganz schlimm ist es, wenn man diesen Kranken mit allen Mitteln das Leben noch unerträglicher macht, indem man sie einer peinlichen Bewachung unterwirft. Der größte Teil unserer ärgsten Zwangsmaßregeln wäre unnötig, wem wir nicht verpflichtet wären, den Kranken ein Leben zu erhalten, das für sie und andere nur negativen Wert hat. Und wenn es noch etwas nützte! Ich bin aber mit Savage überzeugt, daß bei der Schizophrenie gerade durch die Bewachung der Selbstmordtrieb geweckt, gesteigert und unterhalten wird. Nur ausnahmsweise würde sich einer unserer Kranken das Leben nehmen, wenn wir ihn gewähren ließen. Und wenn es auch ein paar mehr sein sollten, die zugrunde gehen — ist es recht, wegen dieses Resultates hunderte von Kranken zu quälen und ihre Krankheit zu verschlimmern? Vorläufig stehen wir Psychiater unter der traurigen Pflicht, grausamen Anschauungen unserer Gesellschaft zu folgen; aber wir haben auch die Pflicht, unser möglichstes zu tun, daß diese Anschauungen sich bald ändern.”
― Eugen Bleuler, Dementia Praecox oder Gruppen der Schizophrenien

tags: schizophrenia, suicide

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