István Hollós
István Hollós (1872-1957) was a psychoanalyst and psychiatrist who worked at and ran the Lipótmező mental asylum—fondly known as the ‘Yellow House’—in Budapest. He was a founder of the Hungarian Psychoanalytic Association in 1932, along with Sándor Ferenczi, Sándor Radó, and others, and its President from 1933-1939. He was analysed by Sigmund Freud and Paul Federn; translated some of Freud’s works into Hungarian; and co-wrote a book with Ferenczi, On the Psychoanalysis of the Paralytic Mental Disorder (1922). He narrowly escaped execution by the Nazis on the bank of the Danube, and wrote about the experience in his ‘Letter from a Survivor’ (1946). His 1927 book-length account of his time at the Yellow House is published, for the first time in English, by 1968 Press.