Author

Eugen Bleuler

Dementia Praecox or the Group of Schizophrenias

1911 (English trans. 1950) · Early 20th Century · History

Bleuler's Dementia Praecox or the Group of Schizophrenias reworks Kraepelin's deteriorating psychosis into a broader and more psychologically complex group of disorders. Its most famous act is terminological: Bleuler introduces schizophrenia to name a splitting or disjunction in psychic functions, not a split personality in the popular sense.