Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 2196

PAUL EUGEN BLEULER (1857-1939) Physisch und Psychisch in der Pathologie. Julius Springer 1916 52 pp. 24.2 cm.

A native of Switzerland and educated at Zurich, Bern, and Munich, Bleuler took a reasoned approach to psychiatry which made him one of the most important men in that field during the latter half of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. While director of the Burghölzi Asylum and professor of psychiatry at Zurich, Bleuler had many pupils, such as Jung (see No. 2301 ff.), who became renowned as psychologists and psychiatrists. Bleuler was an academician and a psychoanalyst like Freud (see No. 2176 ff.); however he broke with Freud because of the latter's rigidity and what Bleuler perceived as a narrow vision of the causes of altered mental conditions in the human being. It was Bleuler who showed that Kraepelin's (see No. 2170) concept of "dementia praecox" should include a subgroup Bleuler called "schizophrenia." This essay was given as a discourse before the Zurich Medical Society at its meeting on January 30, 1915. In it Bleuler expounds his theories on pathological developments in the body which lead to psychiatric and personality disorders.

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