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Sandor Lorand was born in Hungary and studied philosophy, Egyptology, oriental languages, and theology at the Royal Hungarian University of Sciences, after which he obtained his medical education at that university.
During World War I, from 1914 on, he served as a medical officer at Waar Hospital, where he was assigned to treat shell-shocked soldiers. Besides the customary faradic and galvanic electrotherapy, Lorand used hypnotic suggestion with good success. Being stationed in Budapest, he could continue his postgraduate studies in neurology and psychiatry simultaneously with his military service.
When the war was finished, he did research applying hypnosis in surgery, gynecology, and psychotherapy. His first scientific publication, “Painless Delivery in Hypnosis” (1923), brought him in close contact with Sandor Ferenczi, who suggested he undergo didactic analysis, which he did in 1923 and 1924, and he became an associate member of the Hungarian Psychoanalytic Society.
The political situation made him decide to emigrate from Europe through arrangements made by A. A. Brill at Ferenczi's request with Dr. Kirby, Director of the New York State Psychiatric Institute at Ward's Island, New York. In a few weeks’ time he obtained his immigration visa, and in August 1925 he arrived in New York.
Right after his arrival he began teaching. At Manhattan State Hospital he gave case seminars in “Psychoanalytic Psychiatry.” In 1927 he was invited to Mt. Sinai Hospital's Neuropsychiatric Division, where he was chief of one of the mental health clinics and lectured in postgraduate medical courses at Columbia University and Mt. Sinai. That same year he became a member of the New York Psychoanalytic Society, soon becoming one of the leaders among a small group of analysts who propagated Freud's teaching in America. By conducting personal and supervisory analysis, he played an important role in those early years in educating candidates who wanted to be trained in analytic techniques.