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Paul Eugen Bleuler (/ ˈ b l ɔɪ l ər /; German: [ˈɔɪɡeːn ˈblɔɪlər]; 30 April 1857 – 15 July 1939) was a Swiss psychiatrist and humanist most notable for his contributions to the understanding of mental illness.
The word schizophrenia was coined by the Swiss psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler in 1908, and was intended to describe the separation of function between personality, thinking, memory, and perception. Bleuler introduced the term on 24 April 1908 in a lecture given at a psychiatric conference in Berlin and in a publication that same year.
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Bleuler undermined the nosological entity hypothesis of Kraepelin’s dementia praecox. Bleuler saw schizophrenic psychopathology as a continuum of severity that ranges from schizoid personality and latent schizophrenia to schizophrenia.
- Victor Peralta, Manuel J. Cuesta
- 2011
Paul Eugen Bleuler (April 30, 1857 – July 15, 1939) a Swiss psychiatrist, was a pioneer in the treatment of psychoses, particularly schizophrenia. He is responsible for changing medical opinion from one of resignation to such diseases as organic and irreversible, to psychologically based and potentially treatable, at least to some extent.
Aug 26, 2011 · The Monograph in Bleuler’s Life. Eugen Bleuler was 53 years old and at the height of his professional career when he published his schizophrenia monograph. He was born in 1857, 1 year after Kraepelin and Freud. When Bleuler was 17 years old, his older sister Paulina became mentally ill and was admitted to the nearby Burghoelzli hospital.
- Stephan Heckers
- 2011
Professor Eugen Bleuler was born in Zollikon in 1857, a small town in Switzerland. Bleuler studied medicine in Zurich , and later pursued his higher studies in Paris, London and Munich. Then Bleuler was conferred doctor of medicine in 1883, and from 1881 to 1883 was an assistant physician in Waldau near Bern.
The famous Swiss psychiatrist, Eugen Bleuler (figure 1), is well known for his seminal work on psychosis, for having coined the term ‘schizophrenia’ and for his disputes about psychoanalysis with Sigmund Freud. Less known is the fact that Bleuler was a harsh critic of many of the methods and practices of his colleagues.
