BLEULER, PAUL EUGEN

(1857-1939)

   A Swiss psychiatrist, well known for his innovative work in general psychiatry, and, more specifically, for his conceptualization of * schizophrenia. Bleuler's life-long devotion to psychiatric care and research was probably inspired in great part by his sister, who suffered from a chronic psychotic disorder with catatonic features, and who resided at the Burghölzli Hospital in Zollikon with Bleuler and his family. Bleuler himself experienced * synaesthesias of the phoneme-colour type (i.e. hallucinated colours in association with spoken words).

   References

   Bleuler, E., Lehmann, K. (1881). Zwangsmässige Lichtempindungen durch Schall und verwandte Erscheinungen auf dem Gebiet der anderen Sinnesempfindungen. Leipzig: Fues's Verlag.