Overleg:Eugen Bleuler

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In the Dutch entry on the Swiss psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler it is said he coined the term 'autism'. This may be true, one hears this a lot; it is certain to him this was an element of the 'schizophrenia', a term he certainly coined. The meaning which is given in the entry to 'autism' accrrdong to Bleuler is something like (I translate from Dutch) "disturbed emotional relationship with others". This is incorrect. In "Das autistisch-undisziplinierte Denken in der Medizin und seinen Überwindung" from 1919 he means with 'autism' a turning away from reality, a refusal to take in the empirical reality. I won't be more precise or elabirate. Just hope someone picks this up. In psychatric cicles it is pretty common knowledge that Bleuler meant something quite different with the term than it means nowadways. Autism, by the way, was discovered by Leo Kanner in 1944 five years after Eugen Bleuler died.– De voorgaande bijdrage werd geplaatst door Drflips (overleg · bijdragen)