In the history of medicine, Nossrat Peseschkian is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Nossrat Peseschkian as German psychiatrist, founder of Positive Psychotherapy (1933–2010).
Nossrat Peseschkian was born at Kashan in 1933. His recorded nationality is Germany.
Antibiotics, imaging and the randomised trial defined twentieth-century medicine; evidence replaced authority as the standard.
The test of medical work is whether practice changed, not whether the argument was elegant.
Recognition followed: Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (2005).
That the work was done from Germany matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Nossrat Peseschkian died in 2010, aged 77. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany — 2005
