Escamilla, Michael (Author)
Daimon Verlag
Physical Details: 278 pp.
Language: English
Carl Gustav Jung began his training in his chosen career, psychiatry, in 1900. For most of the next ten years, Jung lived and worked at the Burghölzli Psychiatric Hospital in Switzerland. There, under the mentorship of the hospital's director, Eugen Bleuler, Jung not only learned how psychiatry was practiced, but also worked to understand patients with psychotic illnesses and developed theories to explain the processes of the human mind in both health and illness. In Bleuler, Jung, and the Creation of the Schizophrenias, Michael Escamilla, a neuroscientist, psychiatrist and Jungian analyst, reviews the status of the then only recently developed profession of psychiatry and elucidates the intellectual work of both Bleuler and Jung during the first twelve years of the Twentieth Century. Confronted with the task of helping persons suffering from disabling psychotic experiences, Bleuler and Jung utilized scientific research and a new conceptualization of human psychology to provide a way of understanding their patients, and leading to the creation of an entirely new disease concept: \"the schizophrenias.\" This book also documents the interactions Bleuler and Jung had with other important medical doctors of the time, including Emil Kraepelin and Sigmund Freud. Later chapters reflect on how Jung's work with psychotic patients led to his own creative process in the Red Book and his later psychological ideas, and summarize his later writings (and those of subsequent analytical psychologists) on the topic of schizophrenia. A review of current scientific understanding of schizophrenia concludes the book.
...MoreReview Robert Kugelmann (2017) Review of "Bleuler, Jung, and the Creation of the Schizophrenias". Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences (pp. 204-206).
Similar Citations
Article
Dalzell, Thomas;
(2010)
The Reception of Eugen Bleuler in British Psychiatry, 1892--1954
(/isis/citation/CBB001232244/)
Article
Birk Engmann;
(2022)
On the origins of the concept of ‘latent schizophrenia’ in Russian psychiatry
(/isis/citation/CBB771136351/)
Article
Aaron Lahl;
Patrick Henze;
(2020)
Developing Homosexuality: Fritz Morgenthaler, Junction Points and Psychoanalytic Theory
(/isis/citation/CBB304045330/)
Article
Collins, Kenneth;
(2008)
Joseph Schorstein: R. D. Laing's “Rabbi”
(/isis/citation/CBB000950365/)
Article
Carlo Maggini;
Riccardo Dalle Luche;
(2022)
An overview on Hebephrenia, a diagnostic cornerstone in the neurodevelopmental model of Schizophrenia
(/isis/citation/CBB865868388/)
Book
Orna Ophir;
(2022)
Schizophrenia: An Unfinished History
(/isis/citation/CBB447550162/)
Book
Kieran McNally;
(2016)
A Critical History of Schizophrenia
(/isis/citation/CBB412095902/)
Article
Passione, Roberta;
(2018)
Psichiatria e condizione umana: Il contributo di Silvano Arieti
(/isis/citation/CBB859391750/)
Article
Baumeister, Alan;
(2011)
The Search for an Endogenous Schizogen: The Strange Case of Taraxein
(/isis/citation/CBB001034911/)
Article
Evans, Bonnie;
(2014)
The Foundations of Autism: The Law Concerning Psychotic, Schizophrenic, and Autistic Children in 1950s and 1960s Britain
(/isis/citation/CBB001420182/)
Article
Mills, John A.;
(2010)
Hallucinogens as Hard Science: The Adrenochrome Hypothesis for the Biogenesis of Schizophrenia
(/isis/citation/CBB001033694/)
Article
McNally, Kieran;
(2009)
Eugene Bleuler's Four A's
(/isis/citation/CBB000931967/)
Book
Cynthia Carson Bisbee;
Paul Bisbee;
Erika Dyck;
Patrick Farrell;
(2018)
Psychedelic Prophets: The Letters of Aldous Huxley and Humphry Osmond
(/isis/citation/CBB508421278/)
Book
Barry G Gale;
(2016)
Love in Vienna: The Sigmund Freud-Minna Bernays Affair
(/isis/citation/CBB584760254/)
Article
Allen Frances;
(2016)
Entrenched Reductionisms: The Bête Noire of Psychiatry
(/isis/citation/CBB701478590/)
Book
Silvano Tagliagambe;
Angelo Malinconico;
(2011)
Pauli e Jung: Un confronto su materia e psiche
(/isis/citation/CBB990096338/)
Book
Schechter, Kate;
(2014)
Illusions of a Future: Psychoanalysis and the Biopolitics of Desire
(/isis/citation/CBB001551577/)
Article
Hannah S. Decker;
(2016)
Cyclical Swings: The Bête Noire of Psychiatry
(/isis/citation/CBB171698648/)
Article
Jean-Yves Boriaud;
(2010)
Jung analyste de Girolamo Cardano
(/isis/citation/CBB304595960/)
Book
Stanton Marlan;
(2022)
Jung’s Alchemical Philosophy: Psyche and the Mercurial Play of Image and Idea
(/isis/citation/CBB318847977/)
Be the first to comment!