BLEULER, Eugen (1857-1939). Die allgemeine Behandlung der Geisteskrankheiten. Zurich, 1898. Printed wrappers (ends of spine chipped). "Bleuler's inaugural dissertation, on the treatment of mental illness" (Norman 244). -- Dementia praecox oder Gruppe der Schizophrenien. Leipzig and Vienna, 1911. Cloth, folding case. Fine copy. "Bleuler introduced the concept of schizophrenia. He showed that [Emil] Kraepelin's 'dementia praecox' should include all the schizophrenic disorders" (Garrison-Morton 4957). Norman 245. -- Lehrbuch der Psychiatrie. Berlin, 1916. Printed wrappers, uncut (spine worn and splitting). Norman 247. -- Textbook of Psychiatry. Translated by A.A. Brill. New York, 1924. Cloth (rebacked, preserving the original spine; fore-corners a bit worn). First Edition in English of the preceding. The translator BRILL'S COPY, with his bookplate, signature on title-page, pencilled notes on rear endpaper, and pencilled markings and notes on numerous pages. "Brill was Freud's American translator and the chief proselytizer of Freudian theory in the United States in the first three decades of the 20th Century; he had learned Freudian psychoanalysis from Bleuler while a student in Zurich..." (Norman 248). Together 4 volumes, 8vo. FIRST EDITIONS, except as noted. (4)

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BLEULER, Eugen (1857-1939). Die allgemeine Behandlung der Geisteskrankheiten. Zurich, 1898. Printed wrappers (ends of spine chipped). "Bleuler's inaugural dissertation, on the treatment of mental illness" (Norman 244). -- Dementia praecox oder Gruppe der Schizophrenien. Leipzig and Vienna, 1911. Cloth, folding case. Fine copy. "Bleuler introduced the concept of schizophrenia. He showed that [Emil] Kraepelin's 'dementia praecox' should include all the schizophrenic disorders" (Garrison-Morton 4957). Norman 245. -- Lehrbuch der Psychiatrie. Berlin, 1916. Printed wrappers, uncut (spine worn and splitting). Norman 247. -- Textbook of Psychiatry. Translated by A.A. Brill. New York, 1924. Cloth (rebacked, preserving the original spine; fore-corners a bit worn). First Edition in English of the preceding. The translator BRILL'S COPY, with his bookplate, signature on title-page, pencilled notes on rear endpaper, and pencilled markings and notes on numerous pages. "Brill was Freud's American translator and the chief proselytizer of Freudian theory in the United States in the first three decades of the 20th Century; he had learned Freudian psychoanalysis from Bleuler while a student in Zurich..." (Norman 248). Together 4 volumes, 8vo. FIRST EDITIONS, except as noted. (4)