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This article reviews the works of İzzettin Şadan and his passion for psychoanalysis. Working in Bakırköy Psychiatric Hospital as a psychiatrist in the early times the psychoanalysis was embarking on a journey in Turkey, İzzettin Şadan was one of the very few who was interested in S. Freud and his works. His delivery of translations of Freud's works was contrasting the mainstream psychiatric practices of then, yet succeeded on voicing many important psychoanalysts in the country. Here discussed the challenges he faced while introducing the psychoanalysis to next generations, and his faith of scientific nature of psychoanalysis.