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...sometime between the ages of 15 and 25, a period when the frontal lobes of the brain are rapidly maturing. Contrary to popular belief, the disorder has nothing to do with "split personality." The term schizophrenia (Greek for split mind) was coined in 1908 by the Swiss psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler and refers to a splitting of the capacity for thought...
Appropriately, the president and keynoter of the congress was Eugen Bleuler's son Manfred, 54, who 15 years ago took over his father's post as head of Zurich's famed University Psychiatric Clinic at Burgholzli. In his opening speech last week, Dr. Manfred Bleuler estimated that one in every hundred people in the world is afflicted with schizophrenia. Medicine's war against schizophrenia, Bleuler argued, is as urgent as the drives against infectious diseases or cancer, but until now it has woefully lacked public support, largely because psychiatrists themselves differ so strongly about its causes...
...divided mind." Bleuler (1857-1939) was not satisfied with the rigid 19th century view of "dementia praecox" as a single, precisely definable disease whose victims were doomed to progressive deterioration. In 1911 he characterized the various forms of withdrawal from the real to an unreal world as "a group of schizophrenias." Most importantly, he insisted that continuous deterioration was not inevitable...
Emotion v. Metabolism. Some psychiatrists lay heavy stress on heredity, but Bleuler insisted that nobody knows whether the disease is hereditary through specific genes or whether it is passed on from generation to generation because children are emotionally damaged by schizophrenic parents who subject their offspring to a sick environment. As for opinions about treatment, said Bleuler, some psychiatrists see schizophrenia as primarily emotional in origin and give top marks to psychotherapy; others seek the cause of the disease in the chemical or metabolic abnormalities that are known to mark schizophrenia, hence downgrade psychotherapy to a mere adjunct of physical...
Although Pioneer Eugen Bleuler concluded half a century ago that schizophrenia is a worldwide disease, some psychiatrists continue to doubt it. Others contend that it is an essentially different disease among primitive peoples, especially African blacks. In Zurich last week (predominantly white) psychiatrists* got the benefit of research by psychiatrists of the black and yellow races. Their evidence suggested that 1) schizophrenia is most frequent where the tensions of Western technical civilization have caught up with primitive peoples; 2) when primitive people do suffer from schizophrenia, it-is essentially the same disease as in the West, though often colored...