Background
Following in the footsteps of his father, doctoral supervisor, and colleague, Eugene Bleuler, Manfred Bleuler was devoted primarily to the study and treatment of schizophrenia.
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Manfred Bleuler
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Education
Bleuler studied medicine at the University of Zurich as well as in Kiel and Geneva.
Career
He trained at the Kantonales Krankenhaus Liestal and, mostly, in the United States of America, at Boston Psychopathic Hospital, Boston City Hospital, and Bloomingdale Hospital in New New York In 1933, he was appointed the chief physician in the psychiatric departments at Saint Pirminsberg, Pfäfers, and the University Clinic, Basel. In 1942, Bleuler became the Professor of Psychiatry at University of Zurich and the Director of the University Psychiatric Clinic at Burghölzli, where he stayed until his retirement in 1969.
Manfred Bleuler has been praised as the foremost Bleuler scholar, providing valuable insight into his father"s seminal Dementia Praecox or the Group of Schizophrenias.
However, Bleuler himself greatly contributed to the study of the disorder, especially then the topics of late onset schizophrenia, chronic versus acute schizophrenia, and prognosis assessment. Perhaps the most critically, Bleuler first evaluated the impact of environmental variables on the development and outcome of schizophrenia in detail.
Achievements
Membership
German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.
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November 4, 1994 (aged 91) -
Nationality
Switzerland
Awards
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Marcel Benoist Prize; the Stanley R. Dean Award
The Marcel Benoist Prize, offered by the Marcel Benoist Foundation, is a monetary prize that has been offered annually since 1920 to a scientist of Swiss nationality or residency who has made the most useful scientific discovery.The Marcel Benoist Prize, offered by the Marcel Benoist Foundation, is a monetary prize that has been offered annually since 1920 to a scientist of Swiss nationality or residency who has made the most useful scientific discovery.