notable figures: Paul Eugen Bleuler

(1857-1939)

This Swiss psychiatrist introduced the term "schizophrenias" in 1911 and headed the psychiatric hospital at Burgholzli (1898-1927). The mnemonic for his description of these disorders came to be known as Bleuler's four A's: (disturbance of) affect, association, ambivalence and autism, each of which identified a disturbance in those so afflicted.

• Bleuler, Eugen Textbook of Psychiatry Hardcover 1976
• Kline, Nathan S. (Editor) Synopsis of Eugen Bleuler's Bementia Praecox or the Group of Schizophrenics (Monograph Series on Schizophrenia) Paperback 1966

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