Eugen Bleuler

Paul Eugen Bleuler was a Swiss psychiatrist and eugenicist most notable for his contributions to the understanding of mental illness and for coining the terms schizophrenia, schizoid, autism, and what Sigmund Freud called Bleulers happily chosen term ambivalence.

Bleuler was born in Zollikon, a big town near Zrich in Switzerland, to Johann Rudolf Bleuler, a wealthy farmer, and Pauline BleulerBleuler. He studied medicine in Zrich and following his graduation in 1881 he worked as a medical assistant to Gottlieb Burckhardt at the Waldau Psychiatric Clinic in Bern. Leaving this post in 1884 he spent one year on medical study trips to JeanMartin Charcot in Paris, to Bernhard von Gudden in Munich and to London. Thereafter he returned to Zrich to take a post as an intern at the Burghlzli, a university hospital.

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