Professor Dr. Mohammad Mahmudur Rahman is a practicing clinical psychologist and a hypnotherapist, trained in hypnotherapy from UCL, London, UK, and from South Africa. He also obtained supervised Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) practice training experience in UK while doing his post-doctoral training in clinical psychology in 1997. One of his current major mission is to integrate conscious and subconscious psychology, through research and clinical practice – specially combining and integrating his practice of CBT with hypnotherapy, to generate multidimensional assessment, formulation, and intervention. He obtained his PhD in Developmental Psychology from the University of Manitoba, Canada, in 1993, where his study focus was experimental approach to cognitive development of multiply handicapped children and adolescents, while he also studied developmental psychopathology. He worked as a Head of Clinical Psychology Department at the Princess Marina Hospital, Gaborn, Botswana, during 2010- 2012, where he handled successfully cases of childhood trauma, sexual abuse, PTSD, as well as su***de and self-harm. His special clinical interest is in “Integrated Intensive Psychotherapy” – to deal with intra-psychic distress, as well as interpersonal and intergroup conflict, violence — including family violence and organizational/community violence. He started his psychology career as a lecturer in the Department of Psychology at Dhaka University in January, 1981, and finally served as a professor of Clinical Psychology Department at the University of Dhaka from 2003, and served as chairperson of the same department from 2005 to 2008. From July 2021, he is on LPR as Professor of Dhaka University, but continuing his role as an independent researcher, writer, clinical practitioner, research supervisor, clinical supervisor, and consultant.
