Pauline Bleuler

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Anna Pauline Bleuler (* 1852 in Zollikon ; † 1926 ) was the sister of the psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler (1857-1939), who in 1908 coined the term schizophrenia . From 1872 onwards, Pauline showed schizophrenic symptoms during severe psychological crises .

Life

Pauline and Eugen Bleuler, 1872

Pauline Bleuler was born in 1852 to Johann Rudolf Bleuler and Pauline Bleuler. From 1870 she worked as a piano teacher. Around 1872 she suffered a first severe psychological crisis on her parents' farm. Initially supported by a nurse, she was treated in the cantonal mental institution Breitenau in Schaffhausen and from 1874 or 1876 in the mental institution Burghölzli in Zurich . From November 1877, Bleuler's aunt Louise Bleuler reported in letters to relatives about window panes and mirrors that Pauline had smashed. In February 1878 she reported about Pauline's wickedness, force-feeding by Pauline's brother Eugen and clothes by her uncle Theodor Bleuler and a nurse.

Presumably her mental illness contributed to the life of her brother Eugen, who became director of the psychiatric clinic in Rheinau Abbey in 1886 and director of the Burghölzli psychiatric clinic in 1898. Nothing is documented about Pauline's previous and later years of life.

The psychiatrist and psychiatric historian Christian Scharfetter (1936–2012) speaks of a chronic catatonic-mutistic course of the disease .

reception

Pauline Bleuler is a character in the novel Runa by Vera Buck .

literature

  • Daniel Hell : Eugen Bleuler's origins, childhood and youth - background for his teaching. In: Daniel Hell, Christian Scharfetter , Arnulf Möller (eds.): Eugen Bleuler - life and work. Bern: Huber, 2001, pp. 19-27.
  • Walter Letsch: Eugen Bleuler's origin and youth. In: Swiss Archive for Neurology and Psychiatry . Vol. 164 (2013), H. 7, pp. 236-251 ( PDF ).
  • Christian Scharfetter: Eugen Bleuler 1857–1939. Polyphrenia and schizophrenia. Zurich: vdf Hochschulverlag, 2006 ( limited preview in Google book search).

Web links

  • Burkhart Brückner: Biography of Bleuler, Pauline , Biographical Archive of Psychiatry, 2015

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas Widmer: The Age of the Ovarian Press , Tages-Anzeiger , August 28, 2015, accessed on May 13, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Bleuler, Pauline
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bleuler, Anna Pauline (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Sister of the psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler
DATE OF BIRTH 1852
PLACE OF BIRTH Zollikon near Zurich
DATE OF DEATH 1926