Roland A. Carlstedt, Ph.D.
Board Certified Sport Psychologist and
Chairman of the American Board of Sport Psychology

Roland A. Carlstedt is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist, Board Certified Sport Psychologist and Chairman of the American Board of Sport Psychology. He is also the holder of an Applied Psychologist's license. Roland earned his Doctorate (Ph.D.) in Psychology with Honors (with emphases in health and sport psychology and psychophysiology) from Saybrook Graduate School in San Francisco under the renowned Personality Psychologist and Behavioral Geneticist Dr. Auke Tellegen of the University of Minnesota. He has completed post-doctoral continuing education in Psychiatric Neuroscience through Harvard Medical School and received training in the joint Massachusetts General Hospital-Massachusetts Institute of Technology-Harvard Medical School Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Functional Magnetic Resonance Imagery (fMRI) Visiting Fellowship program. He is a member of the Massachusetts General Hospital Psychiatry Academy and Harvard Medical School Postgraduate Association. Roland is also a Research Fellow in Applied Neuroscience with the Brain Resource Company. Roland's dissertation on neuropsychological, personality and performance processes, in highly skilled athletes (700) from 7 sports (tennis, baseball, softball, basketball, golf, volleyball, and track and field), was honored with the seal of distinction. The dissertation also received the American Psychological Association's Division 47 (Exercise and Sport Psychology) 2001 Award for Best Dissertation in Sport Psychology, and it was also nominated for the Society of Neuroscience's Annual 2002 Lindsley Award for Best Dissertation in Behavioral Neuroscience. Dr. Carlstedt is a former professional tennis player and has worked fulltime on the professional tennis tours for over ten years. In his capacity as Head Mentor with the American Board of Sport Psychology, Roland has trained scores of practitioners in Sport Psychology and is currently training consultants with two major league baseball teams. He is also Clinical and Research Director of Integrative Psychological Services of New York City. He is the author of Critical Moments During Competition: A Mind-Body Model of Sport Performance When it Counts the Most (2004, Psychology Press). Web page: www.americanboardofsportpsychology.org.