Sandor Rado
Sandor Rado · Philosophy & Social Sciences
Psychoanalyst known for adaptational psychodynamics
1890, Kisvárda, Hungary — 1972, New York City, USA
Hungary · Germany · United States
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Rado was a psychoanalyst who reshaped Freudian theory into what he called 'adaptational psychodynamics', emphasizing how behavior serves adaptation to the environment, and who organized the first formal psychoanalytic training institutes in Berlin and New York. He founded the psychoanalytic clinic at Columbia University. He was born into a Hungarian Jewish family.
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Psychoanalyst known for adaptational psychodynamics
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