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More than seventy-five years after the death of Eugen Bleuler (1857-1939), his correspondence with Sigmund Freud has been made available by his granddaughter Tina Joos-Bleuler in a volume edited by Michael Schröter, a Freud biographer and historian who has edited Freud's correspondence with others.1 Altogether, 79 letters from the years 1904-1937 have been found—26 by Freud and 53 by Bleuler.2 Freud's were handwritten in his typical way without corrections; Bleuler used a typewriter and made frequent typos, which he corrected and occasionally referred to as evidence of “complexes.” The letters have been published in their entirety and have been annotated with additional information; some have been reprinted in facsimile. The book also contains a foreword by Bleuler's granddaughter and an essay by Bernhard Küchenhoff, former director of the Burghölzli, the psychiatric university hospital in Zurich once headed by Bleuler, regarding the scientific exchange between the two men. Included as well are excerpts of Bleuler's diary from 1909 to 1913.
Despite many requests, Manfred Bleuler (1903-1994), the oldest son of Eugen Bleuler, withheld Freud's letters from publication during his lifetime. Tina Joos-Bleuler, Manfred's daughter, writes that her father had felt they were too personal, that much of the correspondence had to do