Bleuler, Jung and the creation of the Schizophrenias

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Carl Gustav Jung began his psychiatry training in 1900, spending nearly a decade at the Burghölzli Psychiatric Hospital in Switzerland under Eugen Bleuler's mentorship. Here, Jung learned about psychiatric practice and sought to understand psychotic illnesses, developing theories about the human mind's processes in health and illness. Michael Escamilla, a neuroscientist and psychiatrist, examines the early years of psychiatry and the intellectual contributions of Bleuler and Jung in the early 20th century. Faced with the challenge of aiding those with psychotic experiences, they combined scientific research with a new understanding of psychology, leading to the innovative concept of “the schizophrenias.” The book also explores Bleuler and Jung's interactions with notable contemporaries like Emil Kraepelin and Sigmund Freud. Subsequent chapters discuss how Jung's experiences with psychotic patients influenced his creative process in the Red Book and his later psychological theories, summarizing his writings and those of later analytical psychologists on schizophrenia. The book concludes with an overview of current scientific insights into the disorder.