ABSTRACT

Karl Bühler, the eminent Viennese psychiatrist and developmental psychologist, was at Clark University as the G. Stanley Hall Professor of Psychology from 1941 to 1942. I was an undergraduate student at Clark University at the time and consider myself fortunate to have been a student in his seminar. Last year I was asked by the editor of FPTF to describe my recollections of Professor Bühler and to reflect on the impact his ideas might have had on my subsequent work. I am delighted to undertake this twofold task: To offer my personal recollections and to reflect on the similarities between some of Bühler’s work and my own.