38 Facts About Eugen Bleuler

Eugen Bleuler married Hedwig Bleuler-Waser, one of the first women to receive her doctorate from the University of Zurich.

Eugen Bleuler trained for his psychiatric residency at Waldau Hospital under Gottlieb Burckhardt, a Swiss psychiatrist, from 1881 to 1884.

Eugen Bleuler left his job in 1884 and spent one year on medical study trips with Jean-Martin Charcot, a French neurologist in Paris, Bernhard von Gudden, a German psychiatrist in Munich, and to London.

Eugen Bleuler became the director of a psychiatric clinic in Rheinau, a hospital located in an old monastery on an island in the Rhine.

Eugen Bleuler was appointed director of the mental asylum in Rheinau.

Eugen Bleuler served as the director from the years 1898 to 1927.

Eugen Bleuler implemented both psychoanalytic treatment and research, and was influenced by Sigmund Freud.

Eugen Bleuler favorably reviewed Josef Breuer and Freud's Studies on Hysteria.

Eugen Bleuler encouraged his staff at the Burgholzli to study unconscious and psychotic mental phenomena.

Eugen Bleuler remained interested in Freud's work, citing him favorably, for example, in his often reprinted Textbook of Psychiatry.

Eugen Bleuler supported the nomination of Freud for the Nobel Prize in the late twenties.

Eugen Bleuler introduced the term "schizophrenia" in a Berlin lecture on 24 April 1908.

Eugen Bleuler revised and expanded his schizophrenia concept in his seminal study of 1911, Dementia Praecox, oder Gruppe der Schizophrenien.

Eugen Bleuler distinguished between basic and accessory symptoms as well as primary and secondary symptoms.

Eugen Bleuler defined primary symptoms as those that are directly related to neurobiological processes.

Eugen Bleuler defined secondary symptoms as behavioral reactions to primary symptoms.

Eugen Bleuler argued that no one was ever completely "cured" of schizophrenia; there was always some sort of lasting cognitive weakness or defect that was manifest in behavior.

Unlike Kraepelin, Eugen Bleuler believed that the overall prognosis was not uniformly grim.

Eugen Bleuler believed "dementia" was a secondary symptom not directly caused by the underlying biological process.

Eugen Bleuler believed the biological disease was much more prevalent in the population due to its "simple" and "latent" forms.

Eugen Bleuler argued that racial deterioration would result from the propagation of "mental and physical cripples" In his Textbook of Psychiatry, Bleuler states,.

In 1917, Eugen Bleuler discussed the heredity involved in schizophrenia after psychiatrist Ernst Rudin published his findings.

Eugen Bleuler agreed with Rudin that having a family member with schizophrenia increases an individual's chance of having the disease.

However, Eugen Bleuler found that Rudin's study did not use sufficient sampling methods, threatening the integrity of the study.

Eugen Bleuler found that in order for schizophrenia to present itself in patients, several elements must come together.

Eugen Bleuler found that there are a wide variety of symptoms associated with schizophrenia that can lead to a potential diagnosis.

Eugen Bleuler concluded that several aspects of the disease are not genetically inherited.

Eugen Bleuler believed the disease's central characteristics were the product of splitting between the emotional and the intellectual functions of the personality.

Eugen Bleuler favored early discharge from hospital into a community environment to avoid institutionalization.

Eugen Bleuler explored the concept of moral idiocy, and the relationship between neurosis and alcoholism.

Eugen Bleuler was known for his clinical observation and willingness to let symptoms speak for themselves.

Later in his life, Eugen Bleuler studied and published works on psychoids.

Eugen Bleuler defined the psychoid as the capacity to respond and adapt to stimuli, creating permanent changes in the brain and shaping future reactions.

Eugen Bleuler believed the psychoid to be a cause of psychic development.

Eugen Bleuler proposed that social, mental, and physical aspects of life are not separate from each other but instead are seen as aspects of a sole life principle.

Eugen Bleuler promoted and initiated forced sterilizations and castrations of psychiatric patients diagnosed with schizophrenia.

Eugen Bleuler believed that preventing these individuals from reproducing would help preserve racial purity.

Eugen Bleuler's approach aligned more with eugenics and social control than with the Hippocratic ideal of healing, making his legacy philosophically and ethically questionable to this day.