ABSTRACT
This chapter will situate Charlotte Bühler (1893–1974) as a professional woman in developmental psychology and humanistic psychology. I will give special attention to The First Year of Life (Bühler, 1930), “The Human Life Course as Psychological Problem” (Bühler, 1933), From Birth to Maturity (Bühler, 1935), The Child and His Family (Bühler, 1939) and The Course of Human Life (Bühler & Massarik, 1968). Bühler belongs to the late first generation of women in psychology. Bühler’s case is exceptional in that she had two children, did not take time off from her career, and secured family and extracurricular funding to support herself, her husband, and dozens of students in Austria up to 1938. In the United States as an émigré from 1940 to her death in 1974, she shifted to private practice to provide increasing support for a retired husband. She stood out as a creative scientific manager, writer, clinician, and theoretician in developmental psychology across the life span. Charlotte Bühler. https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9780203806135/53033083-3e02-48c0-88bf-b3501014f267/content/fig5_1_B.jpg" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"/> (Courtesy of Verlag Hans Huber in Berne, Switzerland. With permission.)
