Background
Rado, Sandor was born on January 8, 1890 in Hungary. Son of Adolph and Cornelia (Rado) Rado.
Rado, Sandor was born on January 8, 1890 in Hungary. Son of Adolph and Cornelia (Rado) Rado.
Graduate Humanistic Gymnasium, 1907. Doctor Political Science, U. Budapest, 1911, Doctor of Medicine 1915.
According to Peter Gay, "Budapest produced some of the most conspicuous talents in the analytic profession: in addition to Ferenczi, these included Franz Alexander, Sándor Radó." Having qualified as a doctor, Sandor Rado met Sigmund Freud in 1915 and decided to become a psychoanalyst. He was analysed first by a former analysand of Freud, East. Revesz, and then, after his move to Berlin, by Karl Abraham. Among his own distinguished analysands were Wilhelm Reich and "Heinz Hartmann, the most prominent among the ego psychologists." After the Bolshevist revolution in Hungary, "Rado had some influence with the new masters, and it was he who manoeuvred Ferenczi as the first University Professor of Psycho-analysis." Regime change then led to his move to Berlin, where, after Abraham"s death, Ernest Jones suggested Radó (among others) for "replacing him on the Committee" Though this did not take place, Radó swiftly "became known as an outstanding theoretician.".
In the United States, he was instrumental in the relatively fraught creation of "the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, painfully wrested from the New York Psychoanalytic in 1944 by Sandor Rado, in a savage schism." Thereafter, "once an active member of the central governing body of psychoanalysis, Rado now lived on the fringes of the organisation.".
Married Emmy Krissler, December, 1926 (deceased). Children: George, Peter.