Sándor Radó (psychoanalyst)

Memorial plaque for Sándor Radó in Ilmenauer Straße 2 in Berlin (from the series Mit Freud in Berlin )

Sándor Radó (born January 8, 1890 in Kisvárda , Austria-Hungary , † May 14, 1972 in New York ) was a Hungarian doctor and psychoanalyst .

Life and work

Even as a high school student, Radó showed a keen interest in the natural sciences. Against his father's wishes, he decided to study medicine in Berlin . During his regular studies, he took a year to travel and studied philosophy in Bonn and Vienna. The Dr. med. he received in Budapest in 1915 . Radó took an early interest in the then still young psychoanalysis and became active in the Hungarian Psychoanalytic Society. In 1913 he heard Sigmund Freud give a lecture in Vienna . His ideas impressed him so much that they worked closely together over the next fifteen years. Rado was temporarily editor of the organ International Journal of Psychoanalysis . In 1919 Radó married the Budapest psychoanalyst Erzsébet Radó-Révész .

Radó lived in Berlin from 1922 to 1931 and became an influential teacher and organizer at the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute , which Karl Abraham founded in 1922. At Freud's personal request, Radó went to New York in 1931. There he turned away from Freud's libido theory and advocated an ego psychology with a strong scientific orientation. In 1941 he was removed from his position as director of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute. From 1944 until his retirement in 1955 he was director of the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University .

Fonts (selection)

• The psychoanalysis of pharmacothymia (drug addiction) , in: Psychoanalytic Quarterly , Vol. 2 (1933), pp. 1-23; Reprinted in: Journal of substance abuse treatment , Vol. 1 (1984), H. 1, pp. 59-68, doi: 10.1016 / 0740-5472 (84) 90054-0 .
• Die castrationsangst des Weibes , Vienna: Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag, 1934.
• Adaptational psychodynamics. Motivation and control , ed. by Jean Jameson and Henriette Klein, New York: Science House, 1969.

literature

• Paul Roazen , Bluma Swerdloff: Heresy. Sandor Rado and the psychoanalytic movement , Northvale, NJ [et. a.]: Aronson, 1995.
• Elke Mühlleitner: Radó, Sándor. In: Gerhard Stumm et al. (Ed.): Personal Lexicon of Psychotherapy , Vienna: Springer, 2005, p. 383 f.
• Elisabeth Roudinesco ; Michel Plon: Dictionary of Psychoanalysis: Names, Countries, Works, Terms . Translation. Vienna: Springer, 2004, ISBN 3-211-83748-5 , pp. 836f.

Web links

Commons : Sándor Radó  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Sándor Radó in the catalog of the German National Library
• Jewish Museum Berlin, accompanying program