Bühler received the Ph.D. at Munich in 1918. Along with her husband she worked at the Dresden Institute of Technology and became
the first woman lecturer there in 1920. In 1923 she came to the United States on a Rockefeller exchange fellowship to study with Edward Thorndike at Columbia University. After returning to Vienna, she and her husband Karl Bühler, founded a psychological institute where she was the heart of the Child Psychology Department. Her work in child psychology said to have had a strong influence on the American child psychologist Arnold Gesell. When the Nazis came to power in Germany, she and her husband went to Oslo and later, in 1940, to the United
States. In the United States her psychological interests turned to the new movement of humanistic psychology. Along with Abraham
Maslow, Carl Rogers, and Viktor Frankl, she participated in the founding of the Association
For Humanistic Psychology in 1964. Thus she became strongly identified with what Maslow called "third force" in American
Psychology (the others being behaviorism and psychoanalysis. She served as president of this organisation in 1965-1966. As a member
of the "third force" she contributed two books to its cause; The course of human life and, in collaboration with Melanie Allan, Introduction to human psychology. |
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