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Wolfson Institute of Population Health

Frank Rohricht

Frank

Consultant Psychiatrist Centre for Psychiatry

Email: f.rohricht@qmul.ac.uk
Telephone: Tel: +44 (0) 20 7540 4380

Profile

Started career in Psychiatry as a Community support worker in a Psychiatric Day Centre for chronic mentally ill patients in Hagen, Germany; part time psychiatric nurse assistant in acute psychiatric hospital (St. Johannes Hospital in Hagen/Germany). Training in Integrative Body psychotherapy (M. Janssen, Netherlands/ A. Addington, USA); Medical Qualification (MBBS equivalent in Germany). 
I completed my M.D. at Free University Berlin/Germany, (Doctor of Medicine by Thesis): “Body concept and body schema and their relationship with psychopathological symptoms within acute paranoid schizophrenia”. Specialist Training in Psychiatry, Neurology and Psychosomatic Medicine.
Consultant Psychiatrist, Newham Community NHS Trust / East London & the City University Mental Health NHS Trust since 1997, now East London NHS Foundation Trust. Clinical Director for Adult Mental Health in Newham 200-2013; Since 2013 Associate Medical Director Research & Innovation.

Memberships and Appointments

Member/Fellow of Royal College of Psychiatrists (FRCPsych); Honorary Senior Lecturer at the Unit for Social & Community Psychiatry, Queen Mary University of London. Member of the German Association for Psychosomatic Medicine. Chair of the research section of German Association for Body Psychotherapy (part of European Association of Body Psychotherapy). Patron of the Association for Dance Movement Psychotherapy UK. 
2008-2011: Visiting Professor University of Hertfordshire, School of Psychology
Since 2011: Honorary Professor University of Essex, Centre for Psychonanalytic Studies, UK 
Since 2012: Honorary Professor of Psychiatry, St George's Medical School, University of Nicosia, Cyprus

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