'It is a New Kind of Diaspora'

Ricardo Steiner is a member of the British Psycho-Analytical Society, and the current Honorary Archivist. Amongst other distinguished contributions to psychoanalysis, he edited, together with Pearl King, 'The Freud-Klein Controversies'. His other books, ''It's a New Kind of Diaspora':Explorations in the Sociopolitical and Cultural Context of Psychoanalysis', 'Tradition, Change, Creativity: Repercussions of the New Diaspora on Aspects of British Psychoanalysis', 'Unconscious Phantasy' and 'Within Time and Beyond Time: A Festschrift for Pearl King' are also published by Karnac Books.

• 1 Introduction 2 The first emigration wave (1933-1935) and the first "Sorgenkinder" Uncertainty and confusion in Europe and North America 3 "What shall those members do?" Jones's politics in 1933 4 The refugees' American dream "They could emigrate for instance to Buffalo, Detroit, Cincinnati, St. Louis . . ." 5 The final blow Edith Jacobsohn and the expulsion of Jewish analysts from the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute 6 To die in freedom 7 Special "Kinder", special "Sorge" Wilhelm Reich, Edith Jacobsohn, and political neutrality in psychoanalysis 8 Jones, Anna Freud, the Viennese "Sorgenkinder", and "the English way of life".