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Edith Buxbaum From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Edith Buxbaum (born April 20, 1902) was a Viennese psychoanalyst and one of the first child analysts. An only child, her playmates included cousin Bruno Bettelheim. She developed an early interest in psychoanalysis and had read Freud's Interpretation of Dreams before the age of 14.

She earned a PhD in history from the University of Vienna and taught history in Viennese high schools for 10 years, from 1926-1936. During this period she advanced her analytical education with Herman Nunberg and Salomea Gutman-Isakower. She also joined the seminar for child analysis, founded by Anna Freud in 1927. This period was also one of political activity for Buxbaum, who was anti-fascist and was jailed for a month for being a socialist. She lost her job as a teacher and in 1937 she fled Austria for New York. This was enabled by the New York Bank Street Cooperative for Teachers, which created a fake job for her and helped her obtain a U.S. visa.

In New York, Buxbaum established herself as a psychoanalyst. Joining her in 1938 were her mother and future husband, lawyer Fritz Schmidl, as well as cousin Bruno Bettelheim. In addition to her work as an analyst, Buxbaum taught for the New York Psychoanalytic Institute and at the New School for Social Research.

In 1947, Buxbaum and Schmidl moved to Seattle, where she continued to work as a psychoanalyst. In the 1970s she received appointment as an Associate Clinical Professor of Child Psychiatry at the University of Washington in Seattle. She began to build up the Seattle Institute for Child Analysis and helped to put Seattle.