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Bleuler and Schizophrenia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

David E. Raskin
David E. Raskin*
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Department of Psychiatry, University of Washington, Harborview Medical Center Campus, 325 Ninth Avenue, Seattle, Washington, 98104, U.S.A.
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Eugen Bleuler has had a major influence on American psychiatry. His theory of schizophrenia, linking descriptive psychiatry to Freud's psychoanalytic concepts, has had an important influence on diagnosis and treatment, especially in America. This paper will summarize first some textbook descriptions of Bleuler's contribution and then some major issues which Bleuler discusses in his book Dementia Praecox, or the Group of Schizophrenias. I hope to demonstrate that the textbook accounts do not adequately describe the complexity and ambiguity of Bleuler's approach.

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 127 , Issue 3 , September 1975 , pp. 231 - 234
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1975 

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