Mentor  - Vamik D. Volkan, M.D., Founder of CSMHI and Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at the University of Virginia, School of Medicine. Dr. Volkan is a member of The Carter Center's International Negotiation Network and a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute, Washington DC. From 1983-1984, he served as President of the International Society of Political Psychology and in 1994 received the society's Nevitt Sanford award for outstanding contributions to the field. In 1995, he received the Max Hayman award from the American Orthopsychiatric Association for his contributions to the knowledge and understanding of the Holocaust and genocide. In 1996, he received the L. Bryce Boyer Award for a paper based on his work in post-Ceauçescu Romania from the Society for Psychological Anthropology of the American Anthropology Association. In 1999 he gave the Sigmund Freud Lecture at the Freud Museum in Vienna, Austria and received the Margaret Mahler Literature Prize. In 2000, he served for four months as an Inaugural Fellow at the Yitzhak Rabin Center for Israel Studies in Tel Aviv. He is the Editor Emeritus and Founder of CSMHI's quarterly journal, Mind and Human Interaction, and has published over thirty books. His work has been translated into Finnish, German, Japanese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish. His latest book is "Third Reich in the Unconscious".