During the mid-1920s, he trained to become a psychoanalyst through Frieda Reichmann's psychoanalytic sanatorium in Heidelberg. They married in 1926, but separated shortly after and divorced in 1942. He began his own clinical practice in 1927. In 1930 he joined the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research and completed his psychoanalytical training.
During the mid-1920s he trained to become a psychoanalyst through Frieda Reichmann's psychoanalytic sanatorium in Heidelberg They married in 1926 but separated shortly after and divorced in 1942 He began his own clinical practice in 1927 In 1930 he joined the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research and completed his psychoanalytical training