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Eugen Bleuler

1857–1939

Also known as Paul Eugen Bleuler

Image credit: Galerie hervorragender Ärzte und Naturforscher 390 (J. F. Lehmann, München, 1927); Osler Library of the History of Medicine, McGill University (OP000149)Public domainWikimedia Commons

Swiss psychiatrist who directed the Burghölzli, the psychiatric clinic in Zurich, and coined the terms schizophrenia, autism and ambivalence. His clinic was an early centre of psychoanalytic work, where Carl Gustav Jung worked under him and where Sabina Spielrein wrote her doctoral dissertation under his supervision.

Born: 1857
Died: 1939
Influenced: Sabina Spielrein
Notable works: Sabina Spielrein and Jean Piaget: A History to Be Rediscovered2025

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Sabina Spielrein 1911 Bleuler, director of the Burghölzli, supervised Spielrein’s medical dissertation on a case of schizophrenia, published in 1911, with Jung.

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