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[Eugen Bleuler (1857-1939) and German psychiatry].
Eugen Bleuler was born 150 years ago, and about 100 years ago he published his "Schizophrenia" for the very first time-giving rise to a retrospective view especially concerning German psychiatry. Together with Emil Kraepelin, who was more or less of the same epoch as Freud, E. Bleuler is one of the fathers of modern psychiatry. ⋯ Bleuler was not a psychoanalyst himself but rather a pluridimensional psychiatrist in the best sense of the word and at the same time sympathetic to psychoanalysis. The reception and historical effect of Bleuler's work are described. Another important subject that Bleuler himself regarded as the central field in his work is pointed out: the fight against alcoholism.