“in the case of an artist and a Russian do not prove in themselves any mental disorder.”
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Eugen Bleuler
Paul Eugen Bleuler was a Swiss psychiatrist and eugenicist most notable for his influence on modern concepts of mental illness. He coined several psychiatric terms including schizophrenia, schizoid, autism, depth psychology and what Sigmund Freud called "Bleuler's happily chosen term 'ambivalence'". Bleuler remains a controversial figure in psychiatric history for his racist and ableist beliefs, a…
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science · Swiss psychiatrist (1857–1939) · psychiatrist · physician · university teacher · also Eugen Bleuler, Paul Eugen Bleuler, Bleuler
Born 30 April 1857 · Died 15 July 1939 · Q115506
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2026· 2 entries
“mental and physical cripples.”
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2008· 1 entry
Published “Genevestigator V3: A Reference Expression Database for the Meta‐Analysis of Transcriptomes” in Advances in Bioinformatics — cited 1,530 times.
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2002· 1 entry
NRC: Eugen Bleuler danste met zijn patiënten
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1939· 1 entry
Died 1939-07-15.
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1937· 1 entry
Edited new editions of his father's psychiatry textbook, first published in 1916, which already contained eugenic ideas
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1927· 1 entry
Hans Wolfgang Maier continued his work until 1941, when Manfred Bleuler succeeded him
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1924· 1 entry
Career landmark: rector (1924–1926).
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1917· 1 entry
Bleuler discussed the heredity involved in schizophrenia after psychiatrist Ernst Rudin published his findings
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1911· 4 entries
Writing to Freud that "this 'all or nothing' is in my opinion necessary for religious communities and useful for political parties
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Bleuler wrote, "When the disease process flares up, it is more correct, in my view, to talk in terms of deteriorating attacks, rather than its recurrence
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“Castration, of course, is of no benefit to the patients themselves. However, it is to be hoped that sterilization will soon be employed on a larger scale... for eugenic reasons.”
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“When the disease process flares up, it is more correct, in my view, to talk in terms of deteriorating attacks, rather than its recurrence. Of course the term recurrence is more comforting to a patient and his relatives than the notion of progressively deteriorating attacks”
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1884· 1 entry
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
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1857· 1 entry
Born 1857-04-30.
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