This article describes the author’s personal & professional dilemmas, encountered as a psychiatrist in the process of migration from Central Europe to New Zealand. The dilemmas include: personal experiences in the stages of migration; struggles with the author’s own multi-ethnic community; biculturalism; the unexpected seriousness of psychopathology (including suicidal behaviours); & the tendency for overidentification. Concepts of loyalty, relational ethics, & existential humanism were valuable in the resolution of these dilemmas. (33 refs.)