ABSTRACT
Sandor Rado was one of the most brilliant of the early analysts, all of whom were by today's standards highly educated and cultured. In 1913 he became a founding member of the Hungarian Psychoanalytic Society. He first met Sigmund Freud before World War I, thanks to a letter of introduction from Rado's mentor in Budapest, Sandor Ferenczi, who was once such a special favorite of Freud's. Rado felt that there had been a series of early sources of his difficulties, with Anna Freud in particular, whom Rado felt exaggerated her father's dislikes, which could, in any case, be pretty sharp and lasting. After Rado had moved to the States, he spent each of the next summers in Europe, visiting Freud every time, until in 1935 a central crisis finally arose between himself and Freud. Rado thought that the Viennese analysts around Freud constituted a palace guard of advisors and that they had long envied Rado's special position within the movement.
