At this time, the young Csikszentmihalyi, then travelling in Switzerland, saw Carl Jung give a talk on the psychology of UFO sightings.
To earn a living, his father opened a restaurant in Rome, and Csikszentmihalyi dropped out of school to help with the family income. The Communist regime responded by expelling his father and stripping the family of their Hungarian citizenship. When Communists took over Hungary in 1949, Csikszentmihalyi's father resigned rather than choosing to work for the regime. His father was appointed Hungarian Ambassador to Italy shortly after the Second World War, moving the family to Rome. His two older half-brothers died when Csikszentmihalyi was still young one was an engineering student who was killed in the Siege of Budapest, and the other was sent to labor camps in Siberia by the Soviets.
He was the third son of a career diplomat at the Hungarian Consulate in Fiume. His family name derives from the village of Csíkszentmihály in Transylvania. Mihaly Robert Csikszentmihalyi was born on 29 September 1934 in Fiume, now known as Rijeka, then part of the Kingdom of Italy.
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