Eugen Bleuler

Eugen Bleuler was born in 1857 in Zollikon, near Zurich, Switzerland, the son of a farmer. He studied medicine in Zurich and trained in psychiatry at the Waldau hospital near Bern, and then worked in Paris, London and Munich. He then directed the psychiatric hospital at Rheinau, in an old monastery on an island in the Rhine, where he lived closely with his patients. In 1898 he became professor of psychiatry at the University of Zurich and director of the Burghölzli psychiatric hospital, where his assistants included Carl Jung. Bleuler was interested in Sigmund Freud's ideas and helped introduce psychoanalysis to university psychiatry. In his book Dementia Praecox, or the Group of Schizophrenias (1911), he proposed the term schizophrenia, meaning 'split mind', for the illness Emil Kraepelin had called dementia praecox, describing it as a group of disorders rather than a single disease. He also coined the terms autism and ambivalence. He supported eugenic measures, as did many psychiatrists of his time. He retired in 1927 and died in Zollikon in 1939.

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