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Johannes Nicolas Schilder MD, PhD

Medical doctor and psychodramatherapist in private practice for Psychomedical Counsel

St. Nicolaasga

Professional summary

As a medical doctor I specialised in psychological influences on physical disease. I graduated in 1989 at the State University of Groningen, The Netherlands. In the next six years I did my PhD with prof. Marco de Vries on psychological changes preceding (otherwise) spontaneous tumor regression; this work was done at the Helen Dowling Institute for Biopsychosocial Medicine/ Erasmus University Rotterdam. I clinically coordinated a phase II trial on effects of psychotherapy on cancer. As a researcher I trained with the psychotherapists and from 1996 I trained psychosynthesis techniques with Rudy Rijke, MD, PhD and Joke de Vries, MD, PhD. Later on I trained in experiential therapy/ Focusing and most recently in Psychodrama. I have been in private practice for psychomedical help to people with physical disease since 2001.