Symptoms of schizophrenia according to Bleuler
In 1911 Eugen Bleuler proposed the name schizophrenia for a group of mental disorders that Emil Kraepelin had previously summarized under the name Dementia praecox . The naming comes from the contemporary model of dissociation . Bleuler was the only university professor at the time to take over psychoanalysis from Sigmund Freud and used it to interpret many symptoms.
He differentiated between primary and secondary symptoms and between basic symptoms and accessory symptoms.
Primary and secondary symptoms
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Basic and accessory symptoms
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In today's nomenclature, the basic symptoms essentially correspond to the negative symptoms, the accessory symptoms correspond to the positive symptoms. Bleuler had already anticipated today's research results to the effect that the negative symptoms essentially determine the course and prognosis. Course forms with predominantly positive / accessory symptoms usually have a better prognosis.
Memory aid
As a memory aid is spoken by the four major A (basic symptoms) Eugen Bleuler: A ssoziation, A ffektivität, A mbivalenz, A utismus.