Dr. Roland A. Carlstedt (RCarlstedt@americanboardofsportpsychology.org or DrRCarlstedt@aol.com) is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist and Board Certified Sport Psychologist. He also is the holder of an Applied Psychologist's license. Roland earned his Doctorate (Ph.D.) in Psychology with Honors from Saybrook Graduate School (with emphases in health and sport psychology and psychophysiology) 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 Imaging (fMRI) Visiting Fellowship program. He is a member of the Harvard Medical School Postgraduate Association and the Massachusetts General Hospital Psychiatry Academy. Roland is also a Research Fellow in Applied Neuroscience with the Brain Resource Company.
He is listed in the American Psychological Association's Media Referral Services database as an Expert in Sport Psychology and is a Sport Psychology Consultant to the Association of Tennis Professional's Department of Player Services.
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. It was also the recipient of the American Psychological Association's Division 47 (Exercise and Sport Psychology) 2001 Award for Best Dissertation in Sport Psychology Dissertation Abstract.
His dissertation was also nominated for the Society of Neuroscience's Annual 2002 Lindsley Award for Best Dissertation in Behavioral Neuroscience and the the University of Louisville's 2003 Grawemeyer Award for Best New Ideas in Psychology. His Master's thesis was on psychologically mediated heart rate variability during tournament tennis (Biofeedback Winter 2001 Issue).
Dr. Carlstedt is well known in Europe where he lived most of his adult life. While based in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, Roland worked on the professional tennis tours as a coach, sport psychologist and analyst for the media from 1985-1997.
He has provided psychological analyses and features for television at all Grand Slam events, including EuroSport, ARD Germany, RTL, Germany, ZDF, Germany, and RTL, Holland.
Roland is a published author and columnist in more than 40 countries. His instructional series on tennis and tennis psychology have appeared in major tennis publications worldwide. His book "Mentales Tennis" (SportInform Verlag, 1995) and Video "PsychoTennis" are available in Europe.
He is also the creator of the Psychological World Rankings for Tennis, an annual ranking of the psychological performance of professional tennis players. They have appeared worldwide in major publications including Bild Zeitung Germany, Inside Tennis USA, Tennis Magazin Germany, Happy Tennis Austria, etc.
Dr. Carlstedt has coached and advised numerous top professional athletes and coaches, most recently Ronald Agenor (former world ranked 22) at the start of his comeback, Niki Pilic 3 time Davis Cup Champion Germany's Captain, Rohan Goetzke, coach of Wimbledon champion Richard Krajicek, Eric Jelen, and Patrick Kuehen to name a few.
Roland has also trained and consulted with hundreds of athletes and coaches in Sport Psychology seminars and presentations worldwide, including Spanish, German, and Austrian Tennis Federation annual tennis coaches symposia. He has also advised over 50 coaches of NCAA college level I, II, and III teams.
He played professional team tennis in Austria and Germany and was certified by the USPTR in 1976 and inducted into the ATP coaches division in 1986.
Roland is also Senior-Faculty and Head Mentor in the American Board of Sport Psychology CE and certification programs. He is the Chairman and Executive Director of the American Board of Sport Psychology and heads up the Sport and Performance Psychology Research Department at BIOCOM TECHNOLOGIES with his current research focus being on psychologically mediated neurophysiological and cardiovascular processes in athletes.
He is also a consultant to Brainquiry and the Brain Resource Company (joint-venture in researching and establishing laboratory and internet-based individual and normative databases of neurosychological/brain functioning in athletes).
Dr. Carlstedt is a reviewer with Medical Science Monitor, Journal of Personality Research and Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports and sits on APA Division 47 (Sport and Exercise Psychology) Science Committee. He is also Editor of the Journal of the American Board of Sport Psychology
Roland is also Clinical and Research Director of Integrative Psychological Services of NYC and is available for mental training, consulting and coaching. He specializes in Behavioral Medicine and Health Psychology, Applied Sport Psychophysiology and Biofeedback, Hypnosis, and the assessment and training of neuropsychological processes to improve performance, as well as general psychotherapy
His second book Critical Moments During Competition: A Mind-Body Model of Sport Performance When it Counts the Most was released by Psychology Press in July 2004.
(Contact: mail to:RCarlstedt@americanboardofsportpsychology.org; 917-680-3994; CALLS BY ADVANCE ARRANGEMENT ONLY PLEASE)
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles and Books
Carlstedt, R.A. (2006 in press). Bobby Fischer the athlete: Psychological perspectives. In Rene Chun (Author) Bobby Fischer.
Carlstedt, R.A. (2006 in press). The psychology of athlete steroid use. In N. Jendrick (Author), Dunking, doubles and doping: How steroids are killing American athletics. Lyons Press of Globe-Pequot
Carlstedt, R.A. (2006 in press). Do steroids really enhance performance: Myths and anecdotes? In N. Jendrick (Author), Dunking, doubles and doping: How steroids are killing American athletics. Lyons Press of Globe-Pequot
Carlstedt, R.A. (2006 in press). The critical moments and athlete’s profile models of peak performance: Psychological factors driving steroid use. In N. Jendrick (Author), Dunking, doubles and doping: How steroids are killing American athletics. Lyons Press of Globe-Pequot
Carlstedt, R.A. (2006 in press). Steroids versus mental training: Legal approaches to peak performance that athletes, coaches, teams and organizations should use. In N. Jendrick (Author), Dunking, doubles and doping: How steroids are killing American athletics. Lyons Press of Globe-Pequot.
Carlstedt, R.A. (in preparation 2005). The high-risk model of threat perception: A review and meta-analysis.
Carlstedt, R.A. (2005). Response to Wilson's The Brain and Peak Performance. Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books (PsycCritiques [in Press]).
Carlstedt, R.A. (2005). Toward evidence-based practice: Perfunctory pursuits or potent paradigms [Review of the book Evidence-based practice manual: Research and outcome measures in human and health services]. Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books (PsycCritiuques March 23, 2005).
Carlstedt, R.A. (2004). Critical moments during competition: A mind-body model of sport performance when it counts the most. New York: Psychology Press.
Carlstedt, R.A. (2004). Line bisecting performance in highly skilled athletes: Does preponderance of rightward error reflect unique cortical organization and functioning? Brain and Cognition, 54(1), 52-57.
Carlstedt, R. A. (2002). Multiple submissions. Cortex, 38, 411.
Carlstedt, R. A. (2001). Ambulatory psychophysiology and ecological validity in studies of sport performance: Issues and implications for intervention protocols in biofeedback. Biofeedback, 29 (4) 18-22.
Carlstedt, R.A. (2001). Line bisecting test reveals relative left brain hemispheric predominance in highly skilled athletes: Relationships among cerebral laterality, personality, and sport performance. Doctoral dissertation, Saybrook Graduate School, San Francisco.
Carlstedt, R.A. (2001). Acht mythes in de tennis psychologie. Tennis and Coach, Netherlands, 42 (4), 14-19.
Carlstedt, R.A. (1998). Psychologically mediated heart rate variability: A single case study of heart rate deceleration and a spectrum analysis of autonomic function during tournament tennis, Master’s thesis, Saybrook Graduate School, San Francisco.
Carlstedt, R.A. (1995). Mentales tennis. Munich, Germany: SportInform Verlag.
Carlstedt, R.A. & Chadwick, R. (2005 in preparation). Critical moment performance and athlete's profile assessment in high school soccer players: An investigation of the theory of critical moments.
Presentations
2005 Paper; Illuminating zone states: Investigative approaches and emerging evidence. American Psychological Association 2005 Annual Convention, Washington D.C.
2005 Symposium; Title: Neuropsychophysiological concomitants of zone and flow states: Implications for intervention protocols in Biofeeback/Neuofeedback. Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback 2005 Annual Convention in Austin, Texas. Organizer and Chairman.
2005 Paper as part of symposium Neuropsychophysiological concomitants of zone and flow states: Implications for intervention protocols in Biofeeback/Neuofeedback. The theory of critical moments and zone states: Predictive emerging evidence and methods/applications for delineating and manipulating psychological performance. Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback 2005 Annual Convention in Austin, Texas.
2004 Symposium; Title: Integrative Sport Psychology. American Psychological Association 2004 Convention in Honolulu, Hawaii. Organizer and Chairman. Sponsored by APA Divisions of Behavioral Neuroscience and Sport and Exercise Psychology.
2004 Paper as part of symposium-Integrative Sport Psychology. Integrative athlete assessment and interventions: A field-tested protocol. American Psychological Association 2004 Convention in Honolulu, Hawaii.
2004 Paper as part of symposium-Integrative Sport Psychology. Dietrich's transient hypofrontality hypothesis (on behalf of Arne Dietrich). American Psychological Association 2004 Convention in Honolulu, Hawaii.
2004 Poster presentation. The theory of critical moments. American Psychological Association 2004 Convention in Honolulu, Hawaii.
2004 Seminar. New approaches in sport psychology: The Carlstedt protocol. Part of the Division 47 of the American Psychological Association sponsored annual Sport Psychology "give-away-athon" in conjunction with the 2004 APA Convention in Honolulu, Hawaii.
2004 Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center Annual June Residential Conference, San Mateo, California. Paper presentation as part of a panel on Integrative Health Practices. Topic: Advances, research and applications in behavioral medicine.
2004 Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center Annual June Residential Conference, San Mateo, California. Poster: Neuropsychophysiological concomitants of peak performance, mastery and failure.
2003: Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback annual meeting. Topic: Psychologically mediated heart rate variability revisited: An important and revealing marker of peak performance (as part of a panel on Advances in Heart Rate Variability Research).
2002: American Psychological Association annual convention. Topic: Line bisecting test reveals relative left-brain hemispheric predominance: Relationships among cerebral laterality, personality and sport performance (Division 47 presentation of 2001 award winning dissertation).
2002: Invited Presentation at the Saybrook Graduate School Summer Conference Seminar on the Psychology of Consciousness in Santa Rosa, California. Topic: Consciousness in Sports and Performance.
2002: Invited Guest Discussant at the Saybrook Graduate School Summer Conference, Topic: Dissertation Workshop in Santa Rosa, California.
2001: Invited Presentation to the Columbia University Department of Athletics, New York City. Topic: Modern Sport Psychology: Recent Research, New Paradigms and Interventions, and Future Directions.
2001 Presentation to the Faculty of the Biobehavioral Cancer Program of the Ruttenberg Cancer Center of Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. Topic: The High Risk Model of Threat Perception and Pain and Side-Effect Management in Breast Cancer Patients.
1996: Annual Convention of the German Tennis Teachers Association, Division North, Featured Speaker/Presenter. Personality Factors in Tennis Players.
1994-95 German Open, Exclusive, Featured Media Analyst for Title Sponsor Panasonic. Psychophysiological Assessment of Tennis Players and the 10 Building Blocks of Tennis Psychology and Daily Match Psychoanalyses.
1993: Annual Meeting of the Spanish Tennis Federation Tennis Teacher's Association in Madrid, Spain, Featured Speaker/Presenter. Assessing Tennis Players, and Psychological Preparation for Competition.