Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 2197

PAUL EUGEN BLEULER (1857-1939) Lehrbuch der Psychiatrie. Julius Springer 1916 viii, 518 [2] pp., 49 illus. 24.5 cm.

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In this present volume, which covers the whole field of psychiatry as Bleuler saw it, the author points out that there is a thin line between sanity and insanity. He elected to call Kraepelin's "dementia praecox" by his own and certainly more meaningful term, "schizophrenia." Bleuler described what is now called autism as a sort of mental block which shuts off the mind from various degrees of recognition of reality. He made most of his final conclusions regarding psychiatry while director of the Burghölzi Asylum in Zurich, his immediate predecessor there having been the famous psychiatrist, Auguste Forel (see No. 2110). The book became extremely popular and has been widely used as a textbook. It was in its fifteenth edition in 1983. The illustrations depict mentally ill patients, their handwriting and drawings, and microphotographs of brain tissue from selected patients.

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Copy 2: Gift of John Martin, M.D