Nossrat Peseschkian
Illustration — Nossrat Peseschkian Nossrat Peseschkian (18 June 1933 – 27 April 2010) was an Iranian-born German specialist in neurology, psychiatry, psychotherapy and psychosomatic medicine. Peseschkian founded positive psychotherapy in 1968 based on a cross-cultural approach; he was also the founder of the Wiesbaden Academy of Psychotherapy (WIAP), a German state-licensed postgraduate institute of psychotherapy.
Nossrat Peseschkian
Kateryna Lytvynenko · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Born
- 1933 · Kashan.
- Died
- 2010 · Wiesbaden.
- Nationality
- Germany
- Occupation
- writer · psychiatrist · psychotherapist · physician · neurologist · university teacher
- Honours
- Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany · Ernst von Bergmann Plaque
- Languages
- German
VALÉORINE Encyclopedia
VALÉORINE documentary reading
Documentary summary
Illustration — Nossrat Peseschkian Nossrat Peseschkian (18 June 1933 – 27 April 2010) was an Iranian-born German specialist in neurology, psychiatry, psychotherapy and psychosomatic medicine. Peseschkian founded positive psychotherapy in 1968 based on a cross-cultural approach; he was also the founder of the Wiesbaden Academy of Psychotherapy (WIAP), a German state-licensed postgraduate institute of psychotherapy.
Admitted source layer · organised and presented by VALÉORINE
Note VALÉORINE
No house-authored Note is published until its assertions and sources pass the VALÉORINE evidence contract. The documentary article remains available in full while that enrichment is being consolidated.
Documentary enrichment in progress · no unsupported statement published
Reference Check
Propose documentary evidence for Nossrat Peseschkian. A contribution is never written directly as fact: identity, source, rights and evidence gates still decide.
Sign in to contribute
World of VALÉORINE
Documentary connections
Only confirmed graph relationships appear here. Images are shown only when their identity and reuse rights both pass the documentary gate.
Documentary evidence
Evidence Panel
not yet certified
- Identity
- resolved
- Independent source families
- 0
- Admitted assertions
- 0
- Open conflicts
- 0
Authority files
wikidata · Q71387 · wikipedia · Nossrat Peseschkian
In this article
Biography
Biography
Born and raised in Iran, Nossrat Peseschkian went to Germany in 1954 for his studies in medicine at the universities of Freiburg, Frankfurt am Main and Mainz. After his medical specialty training and dissertation, he did postgraduate training in psychotherapy in Germany, Switzerland, Austria and the United States. As an international lecturer, Peseschkian traveled to 67 countries. A global network of over fifty local, regional and national centers of positive psychotherapy has been established in 33 countries. Most of his trainings focused on Germany, Ausftria, Switzerland and Luxemburg. Peseschkian authored 26 books on his technique; some of them have been translated into 23 languages. Pesechkian debuted his method of positive psychotherapy, a psychodynamic method with a cross-cultural and humanistic background, in 1968. In 1977, the German Association for Positive Psychotherapy was founded. Internationally, positive psychotherapy is represented by the World Association of Positive Psychotherapy. Swiss psychiatrist G. Benedetti explained in 1979: "His model is a notable synthesis of psychodynamic and behavior-therapeutic elements, making an essential contribution to a unified relationship within psychotherapy". Peseschkian was, up to the date of his death, the head of the International Academy for Positive and Transcultural Psychotherapy, the president of the World Association for Positive Psychotherapy, and Honorary President of the German Association for Positive Psychotherapy. He was an honorary professor at the National Psychoneurologic Institute Bechterew in St. Petersburg, Russia. In 1996, he received the Federal Order of Merit from the president of Germany. Peseschkian was a member of the Baháʼí Faith. He was married to Manije Peseschkian (1940–2020), a family therapist. They had two sons, both physicians practicing psychiatry and psychotherapy (Hamid Peseschkian (b. 1962); Nawid Peseschkian (b. 1964)), and four grandchildren. His grave is in Wiesbaden-Sonnenberg, and was recognized by the Wiesbaden City Council on 17 March 2023 as a grave of honor.
Identity
Identity
Nossrat Peseschkian is recorded as having received Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and Ernst von Bergmann Plaque. Recognition and collections. Peseschkian received Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and Ernst von Bergmann Plaque.
Life and career
Dated record
Life and career
The full dated record · 2 entries
1933
Nossrat Peseschkian born at Kashan.
2010
Nossrat Peseschkian died at Wiesbaden.
Places
Named by the record
Places
Only places the record itself states, plotted where the house gazetteer settles their coordinates. Nothing is inferred from a name or a nationality.
Kashan.
Birth place
Wiesbaden.
Death place
Publications
Amongst Peseschkian's books and publications (mostly in German, some English, Chinese and Russian and other languages) are: • If You Want Something You Never Had, Then Do Something You Never Did, by Nossrat Peseschkian, published 2006, Sterling Publishers Pvt., Limited, • Positive Psychotherapy Theory and Practice of a New Method, by Peseschkian, Nossrat (Walker, Robert R, Dr. Translator), Publisher: Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1987, (first German edition 1977 by Fischer Verlag) • Oriental Stories as Tools in Psychotherapy: the Merchant and the Parrot, by Peseschkian, Nossrat, Publisher: Springer-Verlag, 1986 (first German edition 1979 by Fischer Verlag) • In Search of Meaning, by Peseschkian, Nossrat, Publisher: Springer (first German edition 1983 by Fischer Verlag) • Positive Family Therapy, by Peseschkian, Nossrat, Publisher: Springer, republished Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd, India (first German edition 1980 by Fischer Verlag) • Psychotherapy of Everyday Life: Training in Partnership and Self Help With 250 Case Histories, by Peseschkian, Nossrat, Publisher: Springer (first German edition 1974 by Fischer Verlag) • Positive Psychotherapy in: Globalized Psychotherapy by Alfred Pritz (Ed.), Publisher: Facultas, 2002 • Religion and Science from the Viewpoint of the Baháʼí Faith in: Psychotherapy in East and West. Proceedings of the 16th International Congress of Psychotherapy. Publisher: Korean Academy for Psychotherapists 1994 Over 260 articles in professional journals in Germany and international academic publications.
Awards and honors
• In 1997 Nossrat Peseschkian was awarded the Richard Mertens Prize for his work, “Computer Assisted Quality Assurance in Positive Psychotherapy”. This Prize is one of the most highly endowed in the healthcare sector in Germany. • In 1998 the Federal Medical Chamber of Germany awarded Peseschkian the Ernst von Bergmann Plaque for Services in Continuing Medical Education for Physicians in Germany. • In June 1998, President Prof. B.D. Karvarrarsky nominated Peseschkian as an honorary member of the Russian Association for Psychotherapy. The ceremony took place in Moscow. • In January 2006, Peseschkian received the Order of Merit, Distinguished Service Cross of the Federal Republic of Germany. (Bundesverdienstkreuz). The President of the Federal Republic of Germany, Dr. Horst Köhler, signed the Document. "This Order is the highest recognition of the Federal Republic of Germany for those citizens who have acquired distinguished services and achievements in social-economical, political and spiritual fields as well as their particular services for the Republic for example social charity and humanitarian aid." • In June 2006 the Association of Iranian Physicians and Dentists in Germany honored Peseschkian and two other nominees - among the Iranian Physicians - with an award of recognition for their significant scientific contribution to the field of medicine and health in the world. • In November 2006 Peseschkian was one of the honourees of the Encyclopædia Iranica at the Geneva Gala. Encyclopædia Iranica is a branch of Columbia University in New York, United States.
Notes from the source article
Cited by Wikipedia
Notes from the source article
These works are cited by the source article, in its own numbering. They are recorded as its citations, not as sources VALÉORINE has verified.
- 1.European Association of psychotherapy. EAP: Positive Psychotherapy (Peseschkian, since 1968).
- 2.History of the WIAP Academy. www.wiap.de.
- 3.History. World Association for Positive and Transcultural Psychotherapy.
- 4.Home - World Association for Positive and Transcultural Psychotherapy.
- 5.Peseschkian Foundation.
- 6.Rathaus Wiesbaden.
- 7.Ärztezeitung.
- 8.Vereinigung der Iranischen Ärzte und Zahnärzte in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland.
References
Citations
References
Each reference names the institution holding it, so a reader may go to the document itself.
reference work
Partially resolvedreference work
Partially resolved
The Encyclopedia exists whether or not anything is for sale. Corrections are recorded rather than overwritten, and every version of this record is kept. Published 14 August 2026.
Elsewhere in Books
38,661 published records in this field, each with its sources named.
- Northrop FryeAuthor
- Nosrat RahmaniAuthor
- Nosratollah NoohianAuthor
- NossisAuthor
- NostradamusAuthor
- Notker LabeoAuthor
- Notker the StammererAuthor
- Noto SoerotoAuthor
Best supported in this field
For owners
Own a work by Nossrat Peseschkian?
A specialist will read what you send and tell you what the house can establish, what it cannot, and whether the object is suited to sale. There is no charge and no obligation. The object stays with you throughout; nothing is shipped to us unless it is arranged in writing beforehand.