bleuler in A Sentence

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    Eugen Bleuler, the Swiss psychiatrist who coined the term in 1910, wrote:.

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    Died: Eugen Bleuler, Swiss psychiatrist and eugenicist, notable for contributions to the understanding of mental illness.

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    Bleuler disagreed on both counts and, attempting to clarify matters, changed the name of the illness to‘schizophrenia'.

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    Bleuler believed that, contrary to mental deterioration, schizophrenia led to a heightened consciousness of memories and experiences.

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    Bleuler had intended the term to refer to the dissociation or‘loosening' of thoughts and feelings that he had found to be a prominent feature of the illness.

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    The term‘schizophrenia' has led to much confusion about the nature of the illness, but Bleuler had intended it to replace the older, even more misleading term of‘dementia praecox'(or‘dementia of early life').

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    The word schizophrenia-which translates roughly as"splitting of the mind" and comes from the Greek roots schizein(σχίζειν,"to split") and phrēn, phren-(φρήν, φρεν-,"mind")-was coined by Eugen Bleuler in 1908 and was intended to describe the separation of function between personality, thinking, memory, and perception.

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