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Some results of research in schizophrenia

1970; Wiley; Volume: 15; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1002/bs.3830150302

1099-1743

M Bleuler,

Schizophrenia research and treatment

The Dean Research Award was established by the Fund for the Behavioral Sciences and is presented jointly with the American College of Psychiatrists to emphasize the importance of basic research toward an understanding of schizophrenia; each year, a scientist who has made an important contribution in this area is honored. Following is the text of a lecture delivered by Dr. Manfred Bleuler on the occasion of his receiving the eighth annual award of $2,500 at a seminar held in Atlanta, Georgia, February 14, 1970, by the American College of Psychiatrists. Dr. Bleuler is a member of a distinguished family which has for many decades been associated with the Burghölzi Clinic in Zürich, Switzerland, and is the son of Eugen Bleuler, the originator of the term "schizophrenia." In his own right, Dr. Bleuler has developed an international reputation as a result of his clinical investigations of schizophrenia. He has devoted himself to long-term followup studies of large populations of patients with this illness and has made statistical analyses which have not only advanced our knowledge of schizophrenia as an illness, but have also thrown light on its genesis, diagnosis, and therapy.