Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 2195.5

PAUL EUGEN BLEULER (1857-1939) Dementia Praecox oder Gruppe der Schizophrenien Franz Deuticke 1911 xii, 420 pages 25 cm

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Original edition of this basic text of Bleuler on the subject of dementia and schizophrenia. This book was the expanded version of a 1908 paper Bleuler wrote based on a study of patients in the Burghӧlzi Asylum in Zurich. Bleuler was the first to use the word “schizophrenia” (also called “dementia praecox” at that time), and believed that it was a disease that could be inherited. Schizophrenia, Bleuler argued, was a splitting of psychic functions, and that it did not always progress to full “dementia” as was the common belief at the time. He also argued in favor of mental health patients being housed in community environments rather than hospitals.

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Cited references: Garrison-Morton 4957

Ex-libris of Dr. J. P. Frostig inside front cover. John Martin M.D. Endowment