M.D., D.M., D.Med.Sc.

German Board-certified psychiatrist, neurologist, and psychotherapist

Managing Director, Wiesbaden Academy of Psychotherapy

Private practice for psychotherapy

Director and Trainer, WIAP-Institute of Management Training (IMT)

Vice President, German Association of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

Board member, World Association for Positive Psychotherapy (WAPP).

Visiting Professor, Northern State Medical University, Arkhangelsk, Russia

Address:

Wiesbaden Academy of Psychotherapy, Luisenstrasse 28, 65185 Wiesbaden, Germany, Tel.: +49-611-373707; Fax: +49-611-3757108, hamid(at)peseschkian(dot)com

Biographic Information:

• Born in 1962 in Wiesbaden, Germany 
• Two children (Leyla *1995, Farid *1997)
• Citizenship: German
• Languages spoken: German (native), English, Persian, Russian and some French

University Education and Degrees:

• M.D. (1987), Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Faculty of Medicine, Mainz, Germany
• Doctor of Medicine (1988) in psychosomatic medicine (with ‘magna cum laude’), Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Faculty of Medicine, Mainz, Germany. Thesis on “Psycho-social aspects of 100 patients with lumbar disk herniation.
• D.Med.Sc. (Doctor of Medical Sciences, 1998) postdoctoral dissertation in psychiatry and medical psychology, at the ‘Federal Scientific-Methodological Center for Psychotherapy and Medical Psychology’ of the Bekhterev Psychoneurological Scientific Research Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia. Thesis on “Positive Psychotherapy as a transcultural approach to Russian psychotherapy.”

Clinical Experience, Resident Training and Post-Graduate Medical Speciality:

• Internship in internal medicine, surgery and neurology at the University Hospital of Mainz, Germany (1986 - 1987)
• Postgraduate, specialized residency training in psychiatry and neurology with experiences in addiction psychiatry and sleep medicine (6/1988 - 7/1992) (at two neuropsychiatric hospitals in Hessen, Germany 
• Assistant, Psychiatric-psychotherapeutic private practice (8/92 – 9/92), Wiesbaden, Germany 
• Consultant, Regional Psychiatric Hospital, Yekaterinburg, Russia, (11/1992 - 5/1994)
• Subspecialty training in psychotherapy (1989 - 1993) (Positive Psychotherapy and Psychodrama), Psychotherapy Institutes Marburg and Wiesbaden, Germany
• Staff specialist, American Medical Center (AMC), Moscow, Russia (3/1995-11/1999). Head of Mental Health Services (12/1998 – 11/1999)
• Private psychotherapeutic practice in Wiesbaden, Germany (since 1/2000)

Certifications, Specializations and Licenses:

• German Board-certifications as specialist in psychotherapy (1994), psychiatry (1996), neurology (1997) and psychiatry and psychotherapy (1999) by the State Medical Chamber Germany (unlimited certificates)
• Unlimited medical license in Germany (‘Approbation’) (since 1987)
• Russian Board-certifications as specialist in psychiatry (3/1998), addiction psychiatry (3/1998), and in  psychotherapy (5/1999) by Postgraduate Medical Institutes in St. Petersburg and Novokusnetsk
• Official recognition of German medical degree by the Federal State Committee for Higher Learning of the Russian Federation (5/1997)
• Permission to hold the Russian academic degree (D.Med.Sc.) in Germany as “Dr. habil.” by the Hessen State Ministry of Science (2/2000)
• European Certified Psychotherapist (EAP, 2002)

Teaching and training experience

• Since 1985 international lecturer, since 1991 lecturing and teaching as visiting lecturer at more than 25 medical schools and universities in Russia
• Lecturer, Department of Medical Psychology, Moscow Medical Academy(1996-1998)
• Over 80 intensive postgraduate training seminars on ‘Positive Psychotherapy, Transcultural Family Therapy and Psychosomatic Medicine’ in more than 30 cities of Russia and the CIS, for approx. 3,000 - 4,000 doctors, psychologists and students (since 1991)
• Associate professor and postgraduate trainer for psychotherapy, International Center of Positive Psychotherapy and Wiesbaden Academy for Psychotherapy
• Stress management and cross-cultural seminars for managers and corporate employees (since 1988)
• Supervision of five Ph.D. (Med.) candidates in Russia 
• Visiting Professor, Institutew Psychology and Psychiatry, Northern State Medical University Arkhangelsk, Russia (since September 2002)
• Visiting Professor, UTEPSA University Santa Cruz, Bolivia (since November 2004)
• Lectureship at the Institute Medical Psychology, University of Frankfurt/Main (2003)
• Lectureship at the Institute Psychology University Mainz (2003-2007)

Professional publications and presentations:

• 3 monographs, total of 62 scientific publications
• more than 30 lectures and presentations at national and international professional conferences
• more than 250 lectures on various topics

Organizational and administrative activities

• Founding and supervising of 25 local and regional ‘Centers for Positive Psychotherapy, Transcultural Family Therapy and Psychosomatic Medicine’ in Russia USSR (since 1991)
• Founding of the Association of Positive Psychotherapy in St. Petersburg 16 Jan 1992.
• Co-Founder and member of the Board of Directors of the Russian Association for Positive Psychotherapy (since 1993)
• Member, Board of Directors, International Center for Positive Psychotherapy, (Chairman since 2001)
• Co-chair, Organizing Committee, Annual conferences of the Russian Association of Positive

Psychotherapy (1993-1998)

• Co-chair, Organizing and Scientific Committee, 1st World Conference of Positive Psychotherapy, May 1997, St. Petersburg, Russia 
• Founding member, Section of ‘family psychology, family therapy and counseling’ of the Russian Psychological Society (12/1998)
• Supervision and Managing of the publication of 6 books on Positive Psychotherapy in Russia (translation, editing, printing, distribution)
• Member, Organizing Committee, 2nd World Congress of Positive Psychotherapy, July 2000, Wiesbaden, Germany
• Managing Director, Wiesbaden Postgraduate Academy of Psychotherapy (since 12/1999)
• Director, Institute of Management Training (IMT) at the WIAP-Academy (since 9/2000)
• Associate Editor for Continental “International Journal of Psychotherapy”
• Member, Editorial Board, “Psychotherapy” (Russian Journal)

Appointments, Nominations, and Calls

• Co-founder and Member of Editorial-Board, “POSITUM”- Journal of Positive Psychotherapy St. Petersburg 
• Member, International Steering Committee, First World Conference on Family Violence (September 1998, Singapore)
• Member, International Scientific Committee, 2nd World Conference of Positive Psychotherapy, July 2000, Wiesbaden, Germany 
• Nominee, International Sigmund Freud-Award for Psychotherapy of the City of Vienna, 1999
• Chair, Working Group “Transcultural Psychotherapy”, World Council for Psychotherapy (since 12/1999)
• Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of the Russian Psychotherapeutic Association (1/2000)
• “Ceramic Dolphin Award 2001” for contribution to the development of psychotherapy in the Primorye Region of Russia by the Russian Psychotherapy Association – Primorye Branch
• Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Journal “Questions of mental medicine and ecology” Russia 
• Member, Scientific Council, Institute Positive Psychotherapy Moscow 
• Board member, German Association of Psychodyamic Psychotherapy (Deutsche Fachgesellschaft für Tiefenpsychologisch fundierte Psychotherapie (DFT) e.V. (since 2/2004)

Membership in professional organizations

• American Psychiatric Association (APA)
• World Council for Psychotherapy (WCP)
• International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology (IACCP)   
• German Society for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Neurological Sciences (DGPPN)
• Russian Psychotherapeutic Association (RPA)
• Russian Professional Psychotherapeutic League (PPL)
• German Association of Psychodyamic Psychotherapy
• German Association for Positive Psychotherapy (DGPP)
• Baha’i International Health Agency (BIHA) (life-member)
• Associations for Baha’i Studies (ABS), North America (life-member), Germany and English-speaking

Special areas of research and interest:

• transcultural psychotherapy
• psychosomatics
• family therapy
• first interview techniques
• stress management
• marriage preparation, family life education