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Bleuler

[ bloi-luhr ]

noun

  1. Eu·gen [oi-, geyn], 1857–1939, Swiss psychiatrist and neurologist.


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A Galician immigrant who had studied in Berlin, Dr. Kanner would have been familiar with the concept of “autism” developed by the Swiss psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler, who in the years before World War I used it as a term for the total self-absorption of some schizophrenia patients.

Swiss psychiatrist Paul Eugen Bleuler introduced schizophrenia, often considered the “most troubling” form of madness, as a medical classification in 1908 to replace the label “dementia praecox,” meaning the incurable madness of young people.

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The term “schizophrenia,” which derives from Greek words for “split mind,” was coined in 1908 by Dr. Eugen Bleuler.

Schizophrenics, Bleuler wrote in 1911, had a tendency to self-isolate.

The word is from “autós,” Greek for “self”; the word “autism” was introduced by Swiss psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler, who also coined the word “schizophrenia.”

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