Charles Baudouin was born July 26, 1893, in Nancy, France, and died on August 25, 1963, in Geneva, Switzerland

During his career, he was a Swiss psychoanalyst and Privatdocent at the University of Geneva (1920), founder of the International Institute of Psychagogy and Psychotherapy (1924), director of the review Action et Pensée (Action and Thought) (1931), Chevalier of the Legion of Honor in Paris (1950), and associate professor at the University of Geneva (1962).

His father had a career in the French military as a non-commissioned officer in the public health service, and his mother came from a family of middle-class shopkeepers in the German-speaking area of Lorraine. Baudouin studied philosophy in Nancy, where he received his degree in 1912. He was a professor of philosophy at the school of Neufchâteau in the Vosges. In 1915 he traveled to Geneva, attracted by the success of the Jean-Jacques Rousseau Institute,...