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Charles Baudouin
1893–1963
A pioneering psychoanalyst and pacifist, he helped bridge the ideas of Freud, Jung, and Adler while also writing clearly for general readers. His work on suggestion, psychotherapy, and inner life made him an influential voice in early 20th-century psychology.
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Born in Nancy, France, on July 26, 1893, Charles Baudouin became a French-Swiss psychoanalyst, writer, and teacher whose work moved between psychology, literature, and philosophy. He later settled in Geneva, where he taught and developed a career that brought together clinical practice with a wide range of intellectual interests.
He is especially remembered for trying to connect different schools of depth psychology rather than treating them as rivals. Sources consistently describe him as combining Freudian ideas with elements drawn from Carl Jung and Alfred Adler, and he also became known for his writing on suggestion, hypnosis, and psychotherapy. He founded the International Institute of Psychagogy and Psychotherapy in 1924 and was active as both a scholar and a public-facing author.
Baudouin died in Geneva on August 25, 1963. Today he is remembered as a thoughtful, wide-ranging figure in the history of psychoanalysis whose books explored not only therapy, but also creativity, ethics, and the life of the mind.