Eugen Bleuler

Jump to navigation Jump to search

WikiDoc Resources for Eugen Bleuler

Articles

Most recent articles on Eugen Bleuler

Most cited articles on Eugen Bleuler

Review articles on Eugen Bleuler

Articles on Eugen Bleuler in N Eng J Med, Lancet, BMJ

Media

Powerpoint slides on Eugen Bleuler

Images of Eugen Bleuler

Photos of Eugen Bleuler

Podcasts & MP3s on Eugen Bleuler

Videos on Eugen Bleuler

Evidence Based Medicine

Cochrane Collaboration on Eugen Bleuler

Bandolier on Eugen Bleuler

TRIP on Eugen Bleuler

Clinical Trials

Ongoing Trials on Eugen Bleuler at Clinical Trials.gov

Trial results on Eugen Bleuler

Clinical Trials on Eugen Bleuler at Google

Guidelines / Policies / Govt

US National Guidelines Clearinghouse on Eugen Bleuler

NICE Guidance on Eugen Bleuler

NHS PRODIGY Guidance

FDA on Eugen Bleuler

CDC on Eugen Bleuler

Books

Books on Eugen Bleuler

News

Eugen Bleuler in the news

Be alerted to news on Eugen Bleuler

News trends on Eugen Bleuler

Commentary

Blogs on Eugen Bleuler

Definitions

Definitions of Eugen Bleuler

Patient Resources / Community

Patient resources on Eugen Bleuler

Discussion groups on Eugen Bleuler

Patient Handouts on Eugen Bleuler

Directions to Hospitals Treating Eugen Bleuler

Risk calculators and risk factors for Eugen Bleuler

Healthcare Provider Resources

Symptoms of Eugen Bleuler

Causes & Risk Factors for Eugen Bleuler

Diagnostic studies for Eugen Bleuler

Treatment of Eugen Bleuler

Continuing Medical Education (CME)

CME Programs on Eugen Bleuler

International

Eugen Bleuler en Espanol

Eugen Bleuler en Francais

Business

Eugen Bleuler in the Marketplace

Patents on Eugen Bleuler

Experimental / Informatics

List of terms related to Eugen Bleuler

Overview

Paul Eugen Bleuler (April 30, 1857 – July 15, 1939[1]) was a Swiss psychiatrist most notable for his contributions to the understanding of mental illness and coining the term schizophrenia.

Bleuler was born in Zollikon, a small town near Zurich in Switzerland, to Johann Rudolf Bleuler, a wealthy farmer, and Pauline Bleuler-Bleuler. He studied medicine in Zurich, and later studied in Paris, London and Munich after which he returned to Zurich 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 realized 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).

References

  1. Eugen Bleuler. www.whonamedit.com. URL: http://www.whonamedit.com/doctor.cfm/1294.html. Accessed on: May 2, 2007.
  2. Kuhn R; tr. Cahn CH (2004). "Eugen Bleuler's concepts of psychopathology". Hist Psychiatry. 15 (3): 361–66. doi:10.1177/0957154X04044603. PMID 15386868. The quote is a translation of Bleuler's 1910 original.

External links


de:Eugen Bleuler ga:Eugen Bleuler it:Eugen Bleuler ku:Eugen Bleuler nl:Eugen Bleuler sk:Eugene Bleuler fi:Eugen Bleuler sv:Eugen Bleuler

Template:Jb1

Template:WikiDoc Sources