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Charles Baudouin (French: [bodwɛ̃]; 26 July 1893 – August 25, 1963) was a French psychoanalyst and pacifist. His psychoanalytical work combined Freudianism with elements of the thought of Carl Jung and Alfred Adler. Biography Baudouin was born in Nancy, France. After studying literature, Charles Baudouin continued his education in philosophy at the Sorbonne, where he became interested by the personalities of Pierre Janet and Henri Bergson. In 1913, as a young graduate in philosophy, Baudouin was interested by the work of Emile Coué and contributed to making him famous. In 1915, Pierre Bovet and Edouard Claparède invited him to participate in the work of the Institute Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the future faculty of psychology of the University of Geneva, where he was appointed as a professor. Switzerland also allowed him to get closer to Romain Rolland. Baudouin had his first analysis with Dr. Carl Picht, a Jungian. After meeting with Sigmund Freud in Vienna in 1926, he began a second "didactic" analysis, from 1926 to 1928, with Dr. Charles Odier, a Freudian of the time. A few years later, he followed up with a new analytical experience with Tina Keller. He did not neglect the historical foundations of psychoanalysis, particularly suggestion and hypnosis. This experience and all his therapeutic practice, including the therapy of children and education led him to express the respective contributions of Freud and Jung with his own findings. "Freud or Jung's alternatives must be overcome, we must be in favor of psychoanalysis," he said and added, "It's like asking you: Are you for Newton or Einstein? To which there is only one answer: I am for physics". He brought to psychoanalytic structure his personal contribution, reaching the conclusion of "De l'instinct à l'esprit." He also wrote the interesting term "Psychagogy" . In 1924 he founded the International Institute of Psychagogy and Psychotherapy under the patronage of Adler, Allendy, Bachelard, Coue, Flournoy, Freud, Hesnard, Janet, Jung, Laforgue, etc. Later the institute was renamed as the International Institute for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy Charles Baudouin, headquartered in Geneva. He published a pacifist journal, Le Carmel, published various articles mainly from 1933 to 1935 and, alternately, as of 1917 a monthly magazine Les Cahiers du Carmel. When these journals ceased publication, Baudouin replaced them with the Bulletin trimestriel de l'Institut international de psychagogie, which became in 1931 the Action et Pensée magazine. This is still published twice a year. In the late 1920s and early 1930s, Baudouin taught French literature and philosophy at the International School of Geneva (the world's first international school, founded in 1924) . Baudouin died, aged 70, in Geneva. International Institute for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy Charles Baudouin The institute was officially founded in Geneva in 1924 by Charles Baudouin as the "Institute of Psychagogy and Psychotherapy". Its patronage committee over time included, Adler, Allendy, Bachelard Besse, Coué, Driesch, Durand, Eliade, Flournoy, Flugel, Freud, Guitton, Hesnard, Huyghe, Janet, Jung, Laforgue, Maeder and Meng. The first directors were Baudouin, Bovet and Claparède. It is the oldest French institute of psychoanalysis. The institute today has over a hundred practitioners in Europe and is represented in four countries: Belgium, France, Italy and Switzerland. It pursues a constant research on the theoretical and practical side, organizes conferences, seminars and symposiums open to the public and is always eager to train new members in the spirit of openness, which characterized its practice. Theoretical concepts of the founders Baudouin supports his methodology on three levels (the Psychagogy), depending on the degree of contribution of the unconscious. It therefore has three kinds of methods used separately, sequentially or simultaneously as appropriate: From the Conscious to the Conscious: "The educational methods" Work on the thought, the will, the action, Methods close to Psychotherapy of support and cognitive-behavioral. From the Conscious to the Unconscious: "The suggestive methods" Effect of a spontaneous suggestion, or induced by a hypnotic process. From the Unconscious to the Unconscious "The psychoanalytic methods" Baudouin based the psychoanalytic synthesis primarily on Freudian, Jungian and Adlerian based concepts, plus his own, clearing the vibrant and dynamic complementarity. Baudouin brings together in one representation the scheme of "the seven partners of the Ego", including: Three Freudian instances, Es, Ego and Super-ego, Three Jungian instances, Persona, Shadow and Self, One Baudouinienne instance, the Automatism. Of their oppositions, agreements or complementarity, the always shifting balance of the psychic system will depend. Works Through his numerous books and conferences, Baudouin promoted psychoanalysis not only in French-speaking countries but around the world. He is a precursor in a number of fields (art, education, suggestion, and hypnosis) and some books have been translated in German, English, Spanish, Italian, Norwegian and Swedish. A valuable collection of his essays, Contemporary Studies (1925) includes "The Linguistic International (Esperanto)." His speech in Esperanto given during the 'somera universitato' as part of an international Esperanto Congress in Geneva (1925), was published under the title La arto de memdisciplino. Some books in English Suggestion and autosuggestion : a psychological and pedagogical study based upon the investigations made by the new Nancy school. Translated by Eden and Cedar Paul, 1920. Tolstoi: The Teacher. Translated by Cedar Paul, 1921. Studies in Psychoanalysis, An Account of Twenty-Seven Concrete Cases Preceded by a Theoretical Exposition. Translated by Eden and Cedar Paul, 1922. The power within us. Translated by Eden and Cedar Paul, 1923. The Birth Of Psyche. Translated by Fred Rothwell, 1923. Contemporary studies. Translated by Eden and Cedar Paul, 1924. Psychoanalysis and aesthetics. Translated by Eden and Cedar Paul, 1924. The Inner Life and Individualism. Translated by Cedar Paul, 1924. The Mind of the Child A Psychoanalytical Study. Translated by Eden and Cedar Paul, 1933. The Myth of Modernity. Translated by Bernard Miall, 1950. Psychoanalytical books in French Suggestion et autosuggestion, Neuchâtel-Paris, Delachaux&Niestlé, 1919, 1922, 1938 et 1951. Études de psychanalyse, Neuchâtel-Paris, Delachaux&Niestlé, 1922. La Force en nous, Nancy-Genève, Ed. de la Société lorraine de Psychologie Appliqué – Ed. du Carmel, 1923, 1950. Psychologie de la suggestion et autosuggestion, Neuchâtel-Paris, Delachaux&Niestlé, 1924. Qu'est-ce que la suggestion ?, Neuchâtel-Paris, Delachaux&Niestlé, 1924. Paris, Ed. Le Hameau, 1982. Psychanalyse de l'art, Paris, Alcan, 1929. Mobilisation de l'énergie. Éléments de psychagogie théorique et pratique, Ed. Pelman, Pari.... Discover the Charles Baudouin popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Charles Baudouin books.

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  • Suggestion and Autosuggestion synopsis, comments

    Suggestion and Autosuggestion

    Charles Baudouin

    This title, originally published in 1920, second edition in 1924, has been largely forgotten in the history of hypnosis. Charles Baudouin’s first book, it is an important account o...

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    Psychoanalysis and Aesthetics

    Charles Baudouin

    Originally published in 1924, this title is substantially a continuation of Baudouin’s earlier work Studies in Psychoanalysis, being an application of psychoanalysis to the th...

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    The Mind of the Child

    Charles Baudouin

    Originally published in 1933, the author’s ambition was to depict the child's mind as revealed to us by psychoanalysis. It was not intended to teach the technique of psychoanalysis...

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    The Myth of Modernity

    Charles Baudouin

    First published in 1950, this is a late work by Charles Baudouin, worldfamous French psychologist, and takes its title from the opening chapter which examines the transformati...

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    Studies in Psychoanalysis

    Charles Baudouin

    Originally published in 1922, this title was intended for the expert and for the general reader. The original blurb states: "As far as the general reader is concerned, there does n...

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    Contemporary Studies

    Charles Baudouin

    Originally published in 1924, this title is divided into four parts, each looking at contemporary issues. Beginning with ‘The Liberators of the Mind’, the author discusses imp...