The rise of Nazism put the lives of all of Europe's Jewish analysts at peril. Certain Hungarians therefore decided, on the advice of John Rickman, an emissary of the IPA, during the summer of 1938, to prepare for exile. Balint rejected the idea of going to Australia and was insistent on going to Britain. Jones found him somewhere inManchester. Balint arrived there in January 1939. This article shows how painful and traumatic an experience exile was for Balint, already faced with all the difficulties concurrent to any flight into exile and confounded by the tragic death ofAlice Balint, his partner in both his personal life and in his research, together with a whole series of family deaths, which, for some time left him depressed and inconsolable.

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