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Manfred Bleuler (4 January 1903 – 4 November 1994) was a Swiss physician and psychiatrist.

Following in the footsteps of his father, doctoral supervisor, and colleague, Eugen Bleuler, Manfred Bleuler was devoted primarily to the study and treatment of schizophrenia.

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The influential study by Manfred Bleuler on the long-term course of schizophrenic illness has been reconsidered.

The Swiss psychiatrist Manfred Bleuler -- whose father, Eugen, coined the term schizophrenia in -- obtained similar results.

To take one example of post-Kraepelinian contributions in German-language psychiatry; in , Manfred Bleuler, about to assume the psychiatry chair in.

For his contributions, he received the Stanley R. Dean Award in 1970 and the Marcel Benoist Prize in 1972.

Biography

Bleuler studied medicine at the University of Zurich as well as in Kiel and Geneva. He trained at the Kantonales Krankenhaus Liestal and, mostly, in the US, at Boston Psychopathic Hospital, Boston City Hospital, and Bloomingdale Hospital in New York.

In 1933, he was appointed the chief physician in the psychiatric departments at St. 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.^[