Nossrat Peseschkian (Persian: ???? ????????; June 18, 1933 – April 27, 2010) lived in Germany since 1954.
He was a 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 (since 1971).