Monday, January 24, 2011

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PEACE AND CONFLICT AS LACK OF BLOOD STILL THE MEDITERRANEAN: THE SOCIAL CONFLICT IN GROUP THERAPY William Champion,



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We live in an era which, abandoned the great ideologies, it seems rialimentarsi the illusion of peace as a condition idealized view of the absence of conflict and not as a moment of 'synthesis and composition of the essential diversity.
an omnipotent phantasy and self-sufficient' s absence of what is different from us that, in fact, leads to its elimination (ignoring delete it) apparently peaceful and free of responsibilities.
This prevents the work of mourning, a term that derives etymologically from the Latin verb "labor, labersis, lapsus sum, labyrinth," which means "struggle with suffering and the word" and "just shows that separation, exit from that state.
Fornari, nell'insuperata by the 1966 "Psychoanalysis of War talked of paranoid elaboration of mourning: mourning is no longer suffering the death of loved one, but killing the enemy as an illusion to think uccisore.L 'original terrifying feeling Internal depressive emerging in the form of guilt for the death of the beloved is thinking that evaded the responsibility is not their own but an external enemy.
This means that no one - not even the militant-pacifist can expect that the abandonment of absolute truth is realized spontaneously but through an act of effort (labor) painful, but necessary self-imposed renunciation ...
The increasing complexity of the real scares and induces a more widespread fear of annihilation of identity that results in a naive conversely, if understandable, attempt at reductionism.
not see is essential for this kind of agnosia. See
in fact know.
Orazio (Epistles 1, 2), in the letter to his friend Massimo Lolli, invites him to "sapere aude, dare to know, acknowledge, take responsibility for the risk of knowing.

not see, then, is ignored.
comes to my mind, to keep the events of the last bloody days of the Mediterranean, which do not see the corpses of hundreds of immigrants already collected from the nets of fishermen in Sicily during their normal fishing days, can not be responsible in any way, if not tub-thumping politicians, the umpteenth tragedy caused by not seeing each other and not to mourn for these losses.
So it seems that there where the difficulty lies in health may gained the freedom to float from the consideration of their wishes and needs of individuals needed to share with others the reality in our time but you are "forced", "forced" (in the sense of Latin compulsive) to stay or a part or the other. O-certificates-that is, positions ultraindividualistiche or identified in conformity with the mass herd of 'howl with the wolves "that prevents the individual solitude of different ways: you do not think, do like everyone else. There is hidden in the anonymity and the illusion of being powerful as well as the mass Freud taught us in his writings Social Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego, Totem and Taboo, Civilization and its Discontents. Moses and Monotheism.
In his paper of 1784 "Answer the question: What is Enlightenment?" Kant's sapere aude resumes of Horace, and gives a famous interpretation of the Enlightenment: "Enlightenment is man's emergence from the state of minority that he must be imputed to himself. Immaturity is the inability to rely on one's own understanding without the guidance of another. attributable to itself is this minority, if the cause of it does not depend on lack of intelligence but a lack of decision and the courage to use one's own understanding without guidance from another. Sapere Aude! Have the courage to use your own intelligence! "
imaginary dialogue with Kant, however, we think that the independence of opinion and research, although they remain a core value, can also be reached through dialogue and aid the other. Addiction is a thing, ' interdependence another!
From this point of view, in fact, the therapeutic group can be the place, the gym of Polis where you can train, train and make himself a balance that can afford the risk, but instead the luxury- interface of its different facets, giving citizenship rights to different aspects of their internal world-first-and then, later, the existence of the other self.

L'unica legge assoluta che regola un' aggregazione sociale di tal fatta è il riconoscimento dell'Altro

Friday, January 14, 2011

Kira Reed, Dru Baarrymore

PSYCHO SEMITICS: CONSIDERATIONS ON JEWISH CULTURE Hasidic John Savino Italian Photographer in Manhattan.



What do I know about Hasidic Jews? Not much.
I mostly buy my photographic goods from them!
I do that at Adorama and B&H, the two stores run by orthodox Jews, with the best assortment and the best prices in New York City.
What do I have in common with Hasidic Jews?
Not much.
Well…I have a fairly unkempt beard and long, curly hair but I was unmistakably born and raised Catholic in my native Italy.
There is, perhaps, a faint mnemonic oral history connection in my childhood with Jews, if we really want to dig deep.
My grandfather, during World War Two, was imprisoned by the Nazi and sent to a labor camp, where he befriended several Jews and nearly died with them, until my grandmother, a very strong willed woman, together with the wives of other prisoners, was able to organize an escape for their men, just a couple of nights before their husbands were to be shipped to Germany.
So, as a child, I did hear stories about those Jewish friends from my grandfather.
Nevertheless, my education and life are certainly a world apart from the Hasidic community, but for some reason, over the years, I have always had a fascination, not to mention a strong visual attraction for their very private, ancient looking society. Plus, I have a very keen culinary interest for certain kosher recipes, first amongst them: matzah ball soup.
Trying to make the best of a bitterly cold winter in New York City, last week I started taking photograph in a Hasidic neighborhood. With utmost respect for their right to privacy, I walked around one of their Brooklyn enclaves just a few hours before the start of Sabbath.
Everybody was extremely busy, rushing to finish all business before sundown. Entire families were often running down the streets, buying flowers, doing the last shopping, trying to find a parking spot, making the last calls on their cell phones.You could feel this preparation as a powerful energy in the air. It made me think of the rest of the city, so far away, on that Friday afternoon, as if it was a different planet altogether.
Black clad men, boys and children started playing strange optical games in my lens, as if they were multiple reflections and projections of the same subject. I was rapidly loosing the notion of time, place and history, surrounded as I was by a perfect replica, or rather a vivid, realistic extension of a distant culture still being lived and written with strength and determination, black on white, just like those black coats on the snow covered sidewalks.I soon realized that my bewilderment was not due to one of my usual psychosomatic reactions. Today it was more of a Psycho-Semitic one…
At sundown, a deafening siren blasted in the air, unequivocally announcing the beginning of the Sabbath and almost acoustically wiping off the working week to prepare bodies and souls for the next twenty-four hours of prayer, rest and reflection.
I took a few more frames in front of a Temple, while the last men and children were rushing to enter, quite oblivious to me and to my photography. Then I got on the subway and went back to the 21 st  century.
My experience, for peripheral and marginal it may appear, triggered and augmented both my respect and my interest for this community.
I admit that, as an American in a brutally divided and divisive America, the close-knit social tissue of the Hasidic fascinates me.
Obviously a lot of my fascination also has to do with the visuals of it.
I admire the tenacity and the political statement of dressing today, even here in New York City, in exactly the same way they dressed centuries ago in the remotest regions of Eastern Europe.
And I guess I admire their tenacity in being able to “resist” the world at large, a world luring the majority of us towards an apparently inevitable consumerism and relativism, in all aspects of who we are, how we look and how we behave with each other, a world pasteurizing our individuality and our many ancestral cultural identities into a monochromatic mush.  
I know too little about the Hasidic community, the strongpoint of their belief, their history and their customs to have a realistic opinion about their lifestyle but I can certainly make some initial comparisons based on previous research I have conducted in different fields of oral tradition.
For example, I cannot but immediately notice that every single manifestation of oral tradition I have investigated in the past twenty years is by now either extinct or has gone through major changes due to the influences of modern society.
I could perhaps find a small number of exceptions to this rule, mostly in the oral tradition of Haiti, which in my personal experience is particularly resilient and difficult to erode.
Everything else, no matter how geographically remote or how strongly preserved in the name of faith, magic, healing or cultural identity, is inexorably mutating at a fast pace, succumbing to modernization.
In a world where corporations have more power and leverage than governments, in a world where socializing is less and less practiced and promoted, where family and society rules are bent, voided or ignored to accommodate financial interest and greed on all continents, the Hasidic tenacity certainly is, to say the least, appealing to someone like me who for all his life has tried to research and preserve the oral tradition of our ancestors. 
 Without doubt I am interested to hear from someone who considers television, computers and the technological orgy of our times as a negative presence in their children lives and want to avoid it, replacing it with more organic ways of learning such as books, music, socializing. Someone who has the determination to refrain, at least a day of the week, from switching on or off anything at all !Of course, I can immediately see controversial issues and oxymoron too, as they are an inescapable fact of every society.Some critics of these ultra-orthodox Jews, after hearing about my interest and fascination for the Hasidic community have hurriedly warned me about several things (and here I merely quote their words, refraining from a personal opinion, which my ignorance is still not allowing me to express).They told me about the abusive treatment towards Hasidic women, segregated from the society of men as mere child bearers, who cannot even show their hair in public nor look at a man in the face, they told me about the double standards, apparently part of some Hasidic men sexual life, about the brutal and blindfolded activism of certain ultra-orthodox groups, especially in Israel.
Well, I definitely need to know more.And, mind you, I don’t really care to reach any personal decision about what is right or wrong. When you investigate a phenomenon from a cultural and a visual angle, the “rights and wrongs” are just numbers in an equation. My short field trip to Brooklyn, the other day, rapidly convinced me that for a researcher and visual explorer of oral traditions like myself, something like the Hasidic community would be a greatly interesting topic to look into.It is my hope, with utter unobtrusiveness, respect and determination, to establish some contacts within the New York Hasidic community. I would like to photograph a series of portraits of community elders as well as slices of everyday life, commerce, prayer and celebrations.Considering I don’t know anybody in that community yet, I’ll need to do a lot research and brainstorming alone, at first, to envisage a viable field strategy for my new project. 
I’ll probably do that after enjoying a matzah ball soup.


Saturday, January 8, 2011

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double, Double, and Gemini in the mirror "Psichophotography" by Giovanni Savino. Marco

                                





I think I see my
through a lens that I
refract and multiply, all
figures that move
around me are all
I get angry and I their
way to act .... "

ETA Hoffmann






Talking about the "Double" allows you to take an introspective journey fascinating but also devious and evasive.
The man, in fact, has always been fascinated by himself, and has often dealt with the analysis of art itself, or its "self "as John Savino in his work" Psychophotography.
It 's a novel Savino, p ver cerebral and playful at the same time, in pursuit of dizzying possibilities of digital technology and the unconscious as a dimension suffered not only played but also experienced. It 's a psychedelic but Savino aware that contact with the inner world of his fantasies requires more effort, pain, suffering and self-denial
knowledge of external reality, because we can not use rationality and why the mirror image confronts us with sometimes unpleasant or too far the idea we have of ourselves.
E 'the mirror is the master in this photographic production. We know that in all cultures, civilizations and peoples, the Shadow, the Double, the Mirror - understood as a projection of our own I - have always been the magical aura of fear instilled a
and mystery around him.
Just think of the same Latin word "imago-inis", whose meaning is not only related to the visual sphere, optics, but also to the "appearance" and indeed, the word "imago" can be translated as "eco , visions, dreams, apparitions, with obvious allusion to the realm of magic, the spell, the love for oneself.
There is also the fear of not being able to see his reflection in the mirror, a sign of evil, demonic, a distinctive feature of the stories about vampires.
The theme of the double is a "fable about the human condition," has always been torn between good and evil, righteousness and corruption, innocence and knowledge. In the prismatic
theme of doubleness, appear different nuances may become manifest as our shadow self - as in the story of Peter Schlemihl Adalbert Von Chamisso, or in the tale of Andersen's Shadow, is also the double Our image in the mirror - think of the history of Erasmus in The Adventures of New Year's Eve of Hoffmann, but perhaps, in the popular imagination, twice is fully explicit in the figure of doubles, as it appears in 'Devil's Elixir of Hoffmann, in The Impersonator of Dostoevsky, the key to the study of Freud's Uncanny, "unheimlich", a term Freud himself described as untranslatable into other languages. It is the antithesis of the word "heimlich," "comfortable, quiet," which comes from "heim", "home" and "unheimlich" is what, in contrast, arouses fear, suspicion, anxiety, why not known, familiar, everyday.
In common parlance the word "uncanny" is pointed out a peculiar situation, a discomfort, a doubling, in reference to a loss of identity, to alienation, and this unease about the subject, I , his unconscious.
In this gallery we play with the author and lightweight, almost like children enjoy doing word games, riddles, puzzles, puzzle, but sometimes we shocked by the sudden emergence of a figure to double, invasion unconscious in the field of consciousness, a "return of the repressed," which often takes on the traits of demonic, because, well look, there is as Freud pointed out "the occurrence of death anxiety, which, shunned as grief and pain, comes back in the real, the mocking and grinning figure of Impersonator. "What is excluded, removed, in short, the familiar becomes uncanny and torment.
The double is the "other" part of us, but we do not know what we are rational, what we are.
At the base of creation, and therefore also the basis of artistic creation as in the case of Savino, there is always a finding indivisible primordial (from the Lat. individuus, consisting of in-and negative dividuus to share, which follows the term gr. atomon composed of a-negative and Temne = cut), which, to be perceived, needed a cut, twin of duplicity, of the division but also the relationship and interaction, and the mirror image of the game.
The Gemini nomination Savino, Cosmas and Damian, are sometimes the struggle that a human being must do to overcome the internal contradictions and oppositions are sometimes very similar, two copies each of ' another, and in this case expressing the unity of a duality balance, inner harmony achieved by reducing the multiple to one.
After the duality, the duality is nothing more than appearance or hall of mirrors.
Basically the story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is not that a beautiful fable about the human condition: each of us is Dr. Jekyll and, of course, everyone is Mr.Hyde, even if you do not give a see or find it hard to admit it or even completely unaware. Who has not thought about or at least once in your life that you want to be able to give vent to
emotions, feelings or fantasies, strange pleasures, brutal, perverse, but feel unable to do so for legal compliance with a law, a moral law or respect for his reputation? Pirandello's characters do not resemble those, locked in the prison of the mask?
So "double" what is the bottom? And 'the alter ego that exists in everyone, discreet and quiet that accompanies us, throughout our existence, and then emerge, re-emerge, appear in dreams every night.
Fear and desire we do with the relationship of each of us with his unconscious, and sometimes behind a deep desire lurks the fear of discovering something upsetting ourselves.
Stevenson, Jekyll is a prophesy that "man is not truly one, but two is truly [...] and will ultimately be recognized as a mere aggregation of individuals multifarious, incongruous and independent of each other" and that all these identities coexist forcibly overpower waiting to emerge.

Monday, January 3, 2011

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Margnelli as I remember. Medical and consciousness researcher Pierangelo gauze NEUROBIOBLOG

has been five years since the death of Marco Margnelli (Milano 0.1939-2005). One scholar who has anticipated many of the current interest in neuroscience, and especially relating to the investigation of the neuropsychological been of consciousness. He always declared atheist, agnostic indeed, but the experience of the sacred - embodied and lived in the body in summer and stigmatized - it attracted and involved him deeply. All of the borderline dimension, not in the pathological sense, the mind (including those that are defined phenomena "paranormal") were for him the object of attention and scientific investigation. And his interest in the stigmatized view of psychosomatic medicine was: if the mind is capable of producing similar lesions in the body, perhaps we can discover how to reverse it. For the benefit of patients with psychosomatic disorders and alterations of character. He called the whole history of the paranormal investigation as archives of illusion "in the sense that those who study these phenomena, focusing its attention on the phenomenon rather than on the psyche and the body of one who" lived "this phenomenology. A Margnelli interested instead neuropsychological and anthropological approach to the brain and body in the summer, mystics, psychics, healers. Of all the people ignored and neglected by science, which, perhaps, was to learn something about the nature of consciousness and, in particular, the mind-body relationships. If these people claim to live certain experiences - it was his opinion - as we see, how and under what Correll neuropsychological this occurs. Marco
Margnelli had two faces: that of the researcher and the clinician. His work as a family doctor, a psychotherapist, but never stopped to think and act as a researcher. He was born researcher, a neurophysiologist at the University of Milan and within the National Research Council (made studies on sleep and REM stage with a historical name of neuroscience, Giuseppe Moruzzi). The fact that we have made and released by the University and the doctor does not diminish his skills as a researcher. In fact, I think the spread and complete. Would have ended up doing the work of laboratory research, as well as Margnelli did field research. Methods adopted by medical anthropologist. Equally
happened with George Gagliardi, who is also general practitioner, hypnotist, psychotherapist and researcher. Margnelli Gagliardi created in Milan and the research center and the psychophysiology of states of consciousness from a small assembly of local fans and scholars of the states of consciousness, in a few years became known in Italy and abroad, producing research, publications and taking part in Italian and international conferences. The Centre was the largest strands of studies on sensory, healers, ecstatic, stigmatized. In those years, eighties and nineties, and Margnelli Gagliardi became the leading experts in this type of phenomenology, consulted, invited to meetings, and interviewed several times.
Studies of visionaries Margnelli of Gagliardi and established a model to study medical anthropology. As with the stigmatized, an investigation which followed three main phases: collection of the testimony of the subject and those who followed him (or doctors who were acolytes), data collection and clinical psychological subject (using test psicoproiettivi, multiphasic inventory of Minnesota personality and laboratory analysis); instrumental verification of the truthfulness of the subject (using, for example, lie detector, the cosidddetta "lie", el'elettroencefalografo). Giorgio Gagliardi, vice president of the Center, in those years became inter alia, a great expert on lie detector much to be consulted in the medical-legal consultant and asked how many programs televisive.Ad some this approach might seem overly positivist and instrumental, however, such a methodology to acquire scientific knowledge on the visionaries and mystics who did not previously exist. Clarifying - long before George Lapassade, entologo and French social psychologist, with a number of other intellectual abilities, a scholar of the "trans" and been corrected, which Margnelli had contacts and exchanges - the slope "natural" dissociation. Including the fact that mystics and stigmatized do not necessarily have to be classified as "hysterical." Including these subjects in phenomenology of hysterical, according Margnelli was not only simplistic, but added virtually nothing to the understanding of the psychophysiology of the experience of the sacred. George Lapassade still had an important role in introducing himself to the academic study of states of consciousness: I remember his collaboration with the sociologist of religion Peter Fumarola University of Lecce, and studies on states of consciousness associated with the phenomenon of "tarantula."
Margnelli Marco has always been, skiing, a researcher, a neurophysiologist. Never separated from his academic training, while addressing issues that initially his university colleagues, appeared extravagant: the hypnotic trance, mystical ecstasy, psychoactive drugs, the stigmatized, the feel, the healers. Margnelli The idea was: if these things exist and are widely used in various eras and cultures humanities, we must study the methods of science. There may be a global theory of consciousness, if not trying to understand the "other" states of the brain and mind. His approach was a mix between that of the anthropologist and physician, with a "gift" of the laboratory.
If she never misses was experimental, even laboratory tests on the subjects studied, and of course their will. The first phase was the anthropologist: we study the subject in its environment. The second stage: if the subject is collaborativeness, sottoponiamolo to a whole series of tests and inspections, which could range from psychological tests, personality inventories, the lie detector (called the polygraph, but rather to detect the reactions psychophysiological), the biochemical analysis. Someone used an oxymoron to describe this kind of approach, which in its brevity makes it quite the idea of \u200b\u200bthe attitude of Margnelli about the person who is to study and analyze "critical empathy".
Margnelli was undoubtedly multifaceted, with many other attitudes and values \u200b\u200bas well as that of the researcher. It was a great orator. Seemingly shy and reserved, is transformed every time you speak in public. He had a low tone of voice, and made no effort deliberately to raise it. In fact, it was the audience to pay attention, and was duly impressed by its padronaza argument, the clarity and precision of its terms. It would be a good lecturer, but for a series of events, it was found to be a doctor mutualist, the hypnotist and psychotherapist. Unless recover his qualities as a teacher on several occasions and, in particular, in courses, much appreciated, he held at the Italian Medical Association for the Study of 'hypnosis (AMIS) Milan.
In any case, declared a regular basis and considered a "scientist". From this point of view is his passionate research on states of consciousness: certainly not the hobby of a physician neurophysiologist former CNR, but rather the work of a scholar who, while outside of academia, had succeeded in maintaining high their professionalism, subject knowledge and ability to use research tools and standards accepted and shared.
It had an innate aptitude for teaching, an extraordinary ability as an orator, to involve the public through reports and conferences combining anecdotes of his research, the specific references tratti dalla letteratura scientifica, intuizioni lessicali sue proprie.C’era molto da imparare da Margnelli. Ed infatti, non sono mai mancati gruppi di persone, di ogni età, attorno a lui e attorno alla sua attività. Parecchi studiosi, ricercatori, ma anche studenti (sia di medicina, psicologia, filosofia o altro) che impostarono, ad esempio, la propria tesi di laurea sulle ricerche realizzate da Margnelli. Rimanendo magari in seguito nel suo ampio studio a fare praticantato, sia per la professione che per le ricerche sugli stati di coscienza. Aveva la capacità di dialogare con i giovani, cogliendo pure i suggerimenti e le indicazioni che da essi gli venivano.

Fu un ottimo divulgatore: oltre ai suoi libri, scrisse parecchi articoli for various science magazines. Establishments such as the first Italian journal of popular science: Knowing Giulio Maccacaro. And the initial plan of Riza and Psychosomatics Morelli Masaraki. Often taken part in television interviews - remember the television crew in his office - and TV programs, in particular, to the end, after moving to Rome, the series Miracles conducted by Peter and Helen Vigorelli garnish Rete 4.
Sure, sometimes it did not involve activity by the level of its professionalism and scientific background, but his attitude has always been of openness and cooperation. Do not miss doing his clarifications and his criticism, if was the case. But, basically, was not denied. I met Marco
Margnelli - I already knew that for his books and his research - in the late eighties. Then he attends every day in the first half of the nineties. If I recall an image, I see him in his doctor's office, his desk littered with various objects, including the ever-present cigarette and a pipe for moments of meditation and reflection. His love of rationality, combined intuition of the moment, however, his comments always accurate and enlightening, sometimes witty, perhaps accompanied by her laugh a little 'hoarse smoker, very special. Even when we met at home its near the Arena, to talk about projects, cooking his dish, derived from ancestors of the Valtellina her family of origin: pizzoccheri.
I can see him in his medical practice. Behind him, the library, with some of his books, notes, research protocols and folders of documents for his articles and books. Of the study on a 5 Villoresi in Milan, the Navigli area, which was formerly his father, also a doctor. On one side of the room to the right of Margnelli, a large sofa covered with a heavy red and black velvet cloth, on which was spread patients for psychotherapy and hypnosis.
And the eternal life go. In the morning and Evening mutual band patients. In the afternoon, which followed patients from a specialist.
the phone for one reason or another, rang continuously. Especially when we organize meetings, conventions and conferences. Or to visit, even impromptu, scholars in transit to Milan. Also because of the medical Margnelli was also home to the research center on the phenomenology of the states of consciousness, naming mileage to say that, at those meetings, but also in the field, we deal with research regarding the altered states of consciousness.
Both those induced in a "natural" (sleep and dreaming, hypnosis, trance, trance, meditation), and those induced by psychoactive substances. With regard to field studies, in other places where from time to time Margnelli was requested, there was such a controlled experiment, in which he took part with other psychotherapists and "Entronauta. It was one of the first times that a group of Italian researchers - psychologists, psychiatrists, psychotherapists - itself experienced the effects of ayahuasca, the "vine of death" or "telepathine. This is a plant (liana) from Amazon which is converted into a drink that causes hallucinogenic and dissociative experiences.
Margnelli remember it was at the time, heavy emotional experiences. Told later that it was as if they were open taps of all the suffering that is brought inside. In those years, through Margnelli and the Italian Society for the study of states of consciousness (Sissc), which he chaired, had also the opportunity to meet and interview, during a meeting in Rovereto, Albert Hofmann, the chemist pharmaceutical (ex Sandoz ) discoverer of LSD, after scholar and author of several essays on the role of psychoactive substances in human cultures. The interview was published the first issue of Elsewhere Sissc that Margnelli conceived and baptized with the psychoanalyst Gilberto Camilla, who succeeded in following the direction, and the small group leader of the association. Were part of that group of young researchers great preparation and intelligence, including memory, just to name a couple, George Samorini, ethnobotanist and student of history, culture and science of psychoactive substances, Antonio Bianchi, anesthetist and toxicologist. These were the years when Margnelli was recognized as a pioneer and undisputed master of these studies in Italy, and he was justly proud and motivated to undertake new initiatives, cultural, research and meetings.
studies conducted by The Center Margnelli in Milan, at his studio, was a sea port. Held evening meetings, usually mid-week, in an atmosphere of camaraderie. You will learn new things and at the same time, we had fun. The exchange and comparison with students of different backgrounds and disciplines, united by research on states of consciousness, sometimes very lively, it was always a stimulating experience. Passing scholars and people of all kinds, even days, some extravagant and frankly bizarre. The sofa in the study of Margnelli, on which the patients lay in analysis or hypnotic session, it happened to become a makeshift bed for anyone, including myself, was getting late after the meeting and could not return to train at their home, outside Milan.
Mark loved the company, the loneliness. He alternated between moments of great joy and bawdy jokes, others in which he expressed his vein maliconica, introverted. Always accept to meet and exchange a few chats, especially at lunch and dinner or for coffee in the cafes of Via Villoresi, just outside the consulting room. That was a lovely area, on the canals. Milan was one of the old days, an atmosphere of neighborhood where everyone knew everyone, let alone the Doctor.
In any case, just entered the studio, once you understood, from his expression and his answer in monosyllables, if Mark wanted to talk, or was immersed in the writing of some scientific work, some new article or book. He had a great capacity for concentration and extreme mental clarity. You always surprised, sometimes with lightning intuitions and precise, others for its simplicity, and sometimes almost childish naivete, in human relationships.
The intense activities of the Centre directed by Margnelli international conference culminated with the dimensions of consciousness, held in Florence in 1992, during which they fought for the first time in multidisciplinary (there were reports on the side of historical, anthropological, even criminology, as well as psychological and psychiatric), the theme of consciousness and its changes, both in a "natural" and pathological. At the conference in Florence, for a series of fortunate coincidences, given the limited financial resources, scientists participated in the level of Kenneth Ring, a psychologist at the University of Connecticut among the most serious study and near-death experiences (NDE).
Another important step was the creation of the collective volume The phenomenology of normal and altered consciousness (Theta Publications, Milano 1994) that, in practice, home-printed, with so much difficulty in managing distributed mainly to libraries of Milan. And 'in fact, a volume currently unavailable. The book opened with the section headed "What a state of consciousness" which illustrate the theme Margnelli referring to a model that had won at least twenty years and had subsequently led to devote themselves assiduously to topic: map of states of consciousness of the American psychiatrist Roland Fischer (the original work was published in the prestigious journal Science in 1971 under the title "A Cartography of the Ecstatic and Meditative States").
was a tenacious worker and demanding, he loved the precision of the methodical researcher, who had been trained, fed and with great passion that he did. As a psychotherapist
was more on the side of Freud (admired him as a scientist and writer), than on that of Jung. Margnelli was attracted by the unusual, but his effort was to explain the mentality and instruments rational. By his own admission, both serious and ironic, in the last years of his life had grown a beard to look like even more to the father of psychoanalysis. And, like Freud, was a heavy smoker. Other highlights include
Margnelli relationships with the world of culture and art, its historic links with the Foundation for Contemporary Art Mudima of Milan and the research protocol that sets up "states of consciousness and creativity," a group involving artists, writers and musicians, including jazz musician and composer Gaetano Liguori. Margnelli had important contacts and intellectual exchanges with several representatives of the artistic world of those years, for example, the psychedelic artist Matteo Guarnaccia, or the ethno-photography artist, teacher and Watsu, Italo Bertolasi. But even with journalists and writers, as Lina Sotis, Kasam Viviana Franco Bolelli, Gianni De Martino. Just to name a few, among the many figures that Margnelli met, attended and with whom he collaborated.
was able to involve the audience with a brilliant speech, read, how to mix his university experience and within the National Research Council, his extensive scientific and general, his flair for the new, his ability to synthesize (including lexical ; could always find concise definition, creative and effective for complex phenomena). Always retained the ability to synthesize, to go hard (did not like very long digressions or turns of phrase) that was able to improve during his stay as a researcher at the Karl Ludwig Institut für Physiologie, University of Leipzig, the first, and the United States (University of North Carolina), as a result.
Margnelli was also a great communicator: he wrote several articles for popular science journals, in which he could combine a great style, with the hook to theories that we believe that, (for example, the mapping of the conscience of Roland Fischer, who never failed quote), and his research insights and vocabulary. That
with Giorgio Gagliardi, also a doctor, psychotherapist, hypnotist and teacher of AMIS, it was a collaboration Margnelli important. Gagliardi shared with a lot of research and publications, for example, on stigmatized (Or pseudo such as were able to ascertain, in some cases fraudulent), and in particular on the visionaries. On the latter, held true to its established range of neuropsychological manifestations, was established a commission to study by the University of Milan, where, among others, were part of the pharmacologist and Margnelli Maurizio Santini.
were considered the true "ecstatic trance" and evoked potentials recorded in the visionaries, but obviously not Margnelli ever expressed about the nature of the "perceived" by them.
Important for the research carried out on the ecstatic and visionaries, were using electroencephalograph, which Margnelli was expert, and the lie detector (the so-called "lie detector"). These tools were used by Margnelli Gagliardi and not only to test the reliability of seers and psychics who were studied, but also the related psicofiologici that, for example, was accompanied with altered states of consciousness. There are, moreover, that incorporating biochemical laboratory tests on samples of subjects studied, with their consent, in the style of the researcher with training and neuropsychological approach, but also clinical.
Margnelli also provided a scientific dimension to the "culture psychedelic sixties. Drawing from those anticipatory movements of the New Age, the best you could get: a more complete study of human nature and, in particular of consciousness in its various expressions and manifestations.
As a physician, was among the first to use a holistic approach, even in administering care to their patients: the synthesis of medicine, but also homeopathy and biofeedback, for example. He was always open to therapeutic solutions, from any area arrive without preconceived ideas. Reserved the right to assess the real benefits for his patients, sometimes even to himself, before denying or marry a particular therapeutic approach, seemingly unorthodox. He believed and advocated strongly for the possibility of an "integrated" medicine and therapies.
That his being an atheist, positivist and at the same time, attracted by the mystery of religion and conscience, so as to make the "science of states of consciousness" the best interests of his research life, he made a character of ' modern era, with all its contradictions: charming, passionate, controversial, worthy of being studied and commented on much longer. Always looking for an "elsewhere", in which he now dwells. Http://statidellamente.blogspot.com