Manfred Bleuler

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Manfred Bleuler (born January 4, 1903 in Zurich ; † November 4, 1994 in Zollikon ) was a Swiss psychiatrist .

Life

Gravestone in the Zollikon cemetery

Manfred Bleuler was born as the son of the psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler and the activist of the abstinence and women's movement Hedwig Bleuler-Waser . In Zurich he attended elementary and middle school. He studied medicine in Geneva, Kiel and at the University of Zurich and passed the state examination in 1927 . In 1928/29 he was an assistant in the Liestal hospital. In 1929 he received his doctorate. Due to a serious accident with injuries to the cervical spine, he broke off his training as a surgeon in 1932 and devoted himself to psychiatry . From 1933 to 1937 he was senior physician at the Psychiatric University Clinic St. Pirminsberg / Pfäfers and from 1938 to 1942 at the Psychiatric University Clinic in Basel, where he became a private lecturer in 1941. 1941 took place the appointment as battalion doctor of the Zurich Füsilierbataillons 66th 1941 he was at the University of Basel with a dissertation on schizophrenia habilitation . The following year he was appointed director of the Burghölzli University Psychiatric Clinic and full professor at the University of Zurich. In 1969 he retired .

Services

Manfred Bleuler continued his father's psychiatric textbook, which was first published in 1916, from 1937 onwards. On the 80th birthday of Manfred Bleuler, this book had its 15th edition. Bleuler was a representative of clinical psychopathology . Manfred Bleuler carried out extensive long-term observations of schizophrenic patients.

During the years 1937 to 1943, Manfred Bleuler added articles in the spirit of National Socialist racial hygiene to the book (see the article on his father ). He also represented such opinions himself.

Awards and memberships

Publications (selection)

"ADAPTED TO NEW VIEWS AND NEEDS"
  • Eugen Bleuler: Textbook of Psychiatry. 15th, revised edition. Springer Verlag, Berlin / Heidelberg / New York 1983, edited by Manfred Bleuler with the collaboration of Jules Angst et al., ISBN 3-540-11833-0 .
  • The schizophrenic mental disorders in the light of longstanding illnesses and family histories. Thieme, Stuttgart 1972, ISBN 3-13-470701-2 .
  • Manfred Bleuler, Juerg Willi , Hans Rudi Bühler: Acute psychological side effects of physical illnesses - «acute exogenous reaction type»: overview and new research. Thieme, Stuttgart 1966.
  • Endocrinological psychiatry. Thieme, Stuttgart 1954.
  • Depression in general medical practice. Schwabe, Basel 1944.
  • The modern methods of psychotherapy and the nursing staff. H. Huber, Bern 1943 ( Personnel and Institutional Issues. H. 16).
  • Course of disease, personality and relationship of schizophrenics and their mutual relationships. Thieme, Leipzig 1941 ( collection of psychiatric and neurological individual representations. Vol. 16).
  • Hereditary analytical research. In: Der Erbarzt. Edited by Othmar Freiherr von Verschuer, Leipzig 1941, Volume 9, pp. 12-16
  • Eugen Bleuler. The foundation of schizophrenia. In: Researchers and Scientists in Europe Today. 2. Physicians, biologists, anthropologists. Ed. Hans Schwerte & Wilhelm Spengler . Series: Gestalter Our Zeit Vol. 4. Stalling, Oldenburg 1955, pp. 110–117.

literature

  • Andreas Mettenleiter : Testimonials, memories, diaries and letters from German-speaking doctors. Supplements and supplements II (A – H). In: Würzburg medical history reports. 21, 2002, pp. 490-518, here p. 494.
  • Fred Rihner: Prof. Dr. Manfred Bleuler on his 80th birthday. Zurich 1982.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Andreas Mettenleiter : Personal reports, memories, diaries and letters from German-speaking doctors. Supplements and supplements II (A – H). In: Würzburg medical history reports. 21, 2002, pp. 490-518
  2. ↑ Hereditary analytical research. In: Der Erbarzt. Edited by Othmar Freiherr von Verschuer, Leipzig 1941, Volume 9, pp. 12-16.
  3. ↑ http://www.rochester.edu/provost/achievement-and-service-awards/honorary-degrees/honorary-degree-recipients-1970-1979/
  4. ↑ https://umed.pl/uczelnia/historia/doktoraty-honoris-causa/
personal data
SURNAME Bleuler, Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss psychiatrist
DATE OF BIRTH 4th January 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH November 4, 1994
Place of death Zollikon