Mario Di Fiorino

Mario Di Fiorino (born 22 May 1953)^[1] is an Italian psychiatrist and Director of Psychiatry at the Ospedale Versilia in Viareggio, Italy.^[2][3] The author of numerous scientific papers and books, his main areas of research are related to mental manipulation, violence, and dissociative disorders.^[4]

Life and career

Di Fiorino was born in Forte dei Marmi and received his medical degree from the University of Pisa in 1978. He went on to qualify as a specialist in psychiatry in 1982 and in child neuropsychiatry in 1986. Prior to taking up his post as Director of Psychiatry at the Ospedale Versilia in 2002, he served in the same capacity at the Ospedale Psichiatrico Giudiziario di Castiglione delle Stiviere (a hospital for the criminally insane) in Mantua.^[1]

In 1984 he founded the study center, Psichiatria e Territorio, and its journal of the same name and in 2002 co-founded the journal Bridging Eastern and Western Psychiatry with the Portuguese psychiatrist Maria Luisa Figueira. Several of his studies have focused on mental manipulation in cults and the psychology of their leaders. His study of the Italian apocalyptic cult, Gruppo del Rosario, formed the basis of his 1996 book, Se il mondo non finisce: Quando la profezia non si avvera.^[5] The book was published in English three years later as If the world does not end. When the prophecy plays false! with a forward by Jean-François Mayer. In 2008 Di Fiorino was awarded the Premio Firenze for services to psychiatry.^[6]

Selected publications

• Di Fiorino, Mario; Cirillo, Mauro; Carlesi, Giovanni. (1985). "Considerations on suicide in substance dependence". Minerva psichiatrica, Vol. 26, No 2, pp. 215-216.

• Di Fiorino, Mario (1996). Se il mondo non finisce: Quando la profezia non si avvera (in Italian). Psichiatria e Territorio . Published in English translation by J. Wilson Fledd (1999) as If the world does not end. When the prophecy plays false!. Del Bucchia. ISBN 8847100550

• Betti, Mario; Di Fiorino, Mario (1997). Psichiatria e igiene mentale: Ruolo e funzioni dell'infermiere (in Italian). McGraw-Hill Companies. ISBN 8838626294

• Di Fiorino, Mario (1998). L'illusione comunitaria: La costruzione moderna delle comunità artificiali (in Italian). Moretti & Vitali. ISBN 8871861078

• Caparesi, Cristina; Di Fiorino, Mario; Kent, Stephen (2002). Costretti ad amare: Saggi sui Bambini di Dio/The Family. Psichiatria e Territorio

• Di Fiorino, Mario (2007). "La costruzione moderna delle 'comunità artificiali' settarie" in Eugenio Fizzotti (ed.) Sette e nuovi movimenti religiosi (in Italian), pp. 121-142. Paoline . ISBN 8831533274

• Di Fiorino, Mario; Gemignani, Alfredo (2004). Il paziente violento: La gestione medica della crisi (in Italian). Psichiatria e Territorio.

• Di Fiorino, Mario; Martinucci, Mirko (2007). The figures of melancholy and mania. De melancholiae et maniae figuris. (in English and Latin). Psichiatria e Territorio. ISBN 8890390085.

• Di Fiorino, Mario; Pacciardi, Bruno (2008). Bulimia nervosa: Una guida pratica (in Italian). Psichiatria e Territorio. ISBN 889039000X

References

1. Società Italiana di Psichiatria (2011). Corso "Urgenze e Degenze nel SPDC: Relatori". Retrieved 29 September 2013 (Italian).
2. Servizio Sanitaria della Toscana (2013). Ospedale Versilia: Psichiatria. Retrieved 29 September 2013 (Italian)
3. Il Tirreno (3 October 2011). "Una psicosi cronica con il delirio religioso". Retrieved 29 September 2013 (Italian)
4. Lonigro, Ilaria (11 April 2013). *Vivere in una bugia". La Repubblica. Retrieved 29 September 2013 (Italian)
5. Imarisio, Marco (1 April 2006)."Sabba con delitto, la prima volta in Calabria". Corriere della Sera. Retrieved 29 September 2013 (Italian).
6. La Nazione (9 December 2008). "Arte & scienza: i vincitori del Premio Firenze". Retrieved 29 September 2013 (Italian).

External links

• Official website of Psichiatria e Territorio founded by Di Fiorino in 1984 (Italian)
• Publications by Mario Di Fiorino on PubMed