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The readership of this little gem of a psychoanalyst's oral history could be limited to historians of a particular era of psychoanalysis and to those interested in Sandor Rado as the founder of the Columbia Clinic for Psychoanalytic and Psychosomatic Training and Research. However, for most of today's psychoanalysts his is a barely recognized name On the jacket of the book, Robert Michels, a Columbia graduate, expresses his appreciation for “bringing Rado back to life, and having captured the excitement that his life generated for others. [Rado] often seemed larger than life, and he was far more likely to elicit love or hate than indifference. His ideas, his criticisms, and his personality have had a lasting impact on psychoanalysis and psychoanalysts” Roger MacKinnon, a student of Rado's, comments, “It is amazing how little even those of us who were personally trained by Rado knew about his illustrious pre-Columbia career.”
Sandor Rado (1890-1972) was indeed an important yet relatively neglected figure in the history of psychoanalysis. In the course of preparing a book about Ruth Easser, one of Sandor Rado's first Columbia graduates, I interviewed over