Psychoanalysts should be proud that a colleague has been nominated five times for the Nobel Peace Prize. That distinguished psychoanalyst, winner of the 2015 Sigourney Prize and author or editor of more than fifty books, is Vamik Volkan, who has broadened the psychoanalytic theory of large group dynamics to achieve original insights into the unconscious origins of chronic ethnic conflicts. He has risked his life in an often successful effort to help resolve those conflicts. For example, the first Speaker of Northern Ireland's Assembly, the psychiatrist John Alderdice,