I have included pages for 3 German speaking countries in this website, and this is not a coincidence. Much of psychiatry originated in 19th century Germany, and some of it spread to Austria and Switzerland. Although Switzerland is a small country, it produced Jung, Bleuler, Rorschadt, and other famous psychiatrists. In fact Eugen Bleuler's son, Manfred Bleuler, was also a famous psychiatrist, but Manfred never achieved the fame of Eugen. Eugen Bleuler invented the term "schizophrenia". He was a psychoanalyst, yet he also believed that there was a physical basis for mental disease.
Jung was similar to Bleuler. He found that his psychological theories could not explain certain facts, including the hereditary taint. Jung postulated a "toxin X", which was a chemical that caused schizophrenia. Cotton of Harvard believed in a toxin, but he thought that it was related to bacteria. Switzerland also fathered W. R. Hess, a brilliant neuroscientist who won the Nobel prize for his work with cats.
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This is the Swiss flag, which is square. Most flags are rectangular. The image is from the CIA World Factbook website.
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Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) was trained in Zurich. The image is from the American Journal of Psychiatry website.
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This picture of Dr. Eugene Bleuler was taken from Wikipedia, an international free encyclopedia website. Bleuler coined the term "schizophrenia".
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SHown here is Dr. Walter Rudolph Hess, who shared the Nobel Prize with Moniz. As it turned out, the work of Moniz was unsound, but the work of Hess was valid. The late Dr. Hess was from Zurich. He was awwarded the prize because of his work on the brain. The photo is from the Nobel e-museum, a brilliant website in Stockholm. This is the only Swedish website I have used in my research, but it is a good one.
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Rorschach was a famous Swiss psychiatrist who invented the Rorschach tests.
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This map of Switzerland is also from the World Factbook website. Jung's psychological theories were as full of holes as Swiss cheese, but his toxin X theory was like a Swiss watch. It was precise.
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Shown here is a book by Jung. This book is not recommmended. The clipart is from alibris.com.
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Shown here is Dr. Manfred Bleuler of Zurich, winner of the Gold Kraepelin Award for psychiatry. This medal is awarded in Germany. Another famous winner of this award was Oskar Vogt, who was born in 1870 and died in 1959. Vogt was from Berlin. Manfred Bleuler was born in 1903 and died in 1987. I was not able to find an image for Adolph Meyer. Adolph Meyer was born in Switzerland in 1866. He moved to America in 1892. He died in the US in 1950. Meyer was a psychiatrist who also studied the brain using neuropathology. He was very influencial in American psychiatry.
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Shown here is Herman Rorschach, who was born in 1884 and died in 1922. He used ink blots as a psychology test.
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Shown here is the late Carl Gustav Jung.
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