Eugen Bleuler

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Magazine article from: Swiss News; 10/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...to break out of the Jewish ghetto turned up in the shape of Zurich's famous Burgholzli psychiatric clinic. Its head, Eugen Bleuler, began to use the largely defamed Freudian psychoanalytical methods for the treatment of his patients. So did his assistant... Read more
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Magazine article from: Swiss News; 3/1/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...from rejecting Freud's theories, Eugen Bleuler, the predecessor of Carl Gustav...split) and 'phren' (mind). But Bleuler was also very pessimistic about...pioneered schizophrenia research as Bleuler's young assistant and believed... Read more
From Peter Eldridge re "schizophrenia". (Letters to the Editor).
Magazine article from: Catholic Insight; 3/1/2002; 296 words ; ...double lives. Split personalities are rare and are a form of hysteria, not schizophrenia. In 1911, the psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler invented the term schizophrenia from Greek schizo meaning split, and phrenia meaning mind to convey the split between... Read more
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