Background
Fiorino, Mario Di was born on May 22, 1953 in Forte dei Marmi, Italy. Son of Raoul Di Fiorino and Gilda Destro.
Fiorino, Mario Di was born on May 22, 1953 in Forte dei Marmi, Italy. Son of Raoul Di Fiorino and Gilda Destro.
Graduate, Medicine School, Pisa, Italy, 1978.
The author of numerous scientific papers and books, his main areas of research are related to mental manipulation, violence, and dissociative disorders. 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. In 1984 he founded the study center,, 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. The book was published in English three years later as If the world does not education
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.
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Consultant Health Commission for Reform Law of Senate of Italian Republic, Rome, 2002. Master: Bridging Eastern and Western Psychiatry (co-director English and Russian journal since 2002).
Married Federica Mandirola, November 5, 1983. Children: Andrea, Enrico.