Jung began his career at the Burghoeltzli Mental Hospital in Zurich where he remained until 1909 under Eugene Bleuler, working with hospitalized patients with major mental illnesses, most notably schizophrenia. Based on his work exploring meaning in the words and behaviour of schizophrenic patients, Jung extended the work of Pierre Janet to formulate a theory of the psychoses which he outlined in his classic study in psychopathology Psychology of Dementia Praecox (1907). His formulations provide a conceptual link between the neuroses and the psychoses, and his clinical delineation of split-off complexes influenced Bleuler’s choice of the term ‘schizophrenia’ (Bleuler (1911: 476)) which replaced Kraepelin’s term ‘dementia praecox’. Read the rest of this entry »