Ferdinando Cazzamalli
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Ferdinando Cazzamalli was an Italian psychiatrist from Crema, Lombardy, who was also interested in paranormal
phenomena.
Hewas the director of a psychiatric hospital in Como
, but later became a lecturer in psychiatry at the university of Modena
, which employed Cazzamalli in a 20-years together with an electrical engineer, Eugenio Gnesutta, to work with psychologically disturbed patient, also investigating physical accounts of telepathy
.
With help, they both created equipment in order to measure ultra-high-frequency waves, which would help Ferdinando explain the phenomena of telepathy as electromagnetic
effects on the brain. Ferdinando conducted experiments with a radio receiver, enclosed in a Faraday cage
, and came to the conclusion that there were paranormal phenomena.
Ferdinando created, together with Giovanni Schepis, Emilio Servadio and Luigi Sanguineti, the Italian Society of Metaphysics (SIM) in 1937. It was the first group in Italy to study paranormal activity full-time. The Italian fascist state recognized this group in 1941. The group was later renamed in 1955 to the Italian Society of Parapsychology. In 1946, the society released its first magazine, called "Metaphysics". Due to political and methodological differences, Ferdinando left the society in order to create his own group, the Italian Associated Scientists of Metaphysics.
Paranormal
Paranormal is a general term that designates experiences that lie outside "the range of normal experience or scientific explanation" or that indicates phenomena understood to be outside of science's current ability to explain or measure...
phenomena.
Hewas the director of a psychiatric hospital in Como
Como
Como is a city and comune in Lombardy, Italy.It is the administrative capital of the Province of Como....
, but later became a lecturer in psychiatry at the university of Modena
Modena
Modena is a city and comune on the south side of the Po Valley, in the Province of Modena in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy....
, which employed Cazzamalli in a 20-years together with an electrical engineer, Eugenio Gnesutta, to work with psychologically disturbed patient, also investigating physical accounts of telepathy
Telepathy
Telepathy , is the induction of mental states from one mind to another. The term was coined in 1882 by the classical scholar Fredric W. H. Myers, a founder of the Society for Psychical Research, and has remained more popular than the more-correct expression thought-transference...
.
With help, they both created equipment in order to measure ultra-high-frequency waves, which would help Ferdinando explain the phenomena of telepathy as electromagnetic
Electromagnetic radiation
Electromagnetic radiation is a form of energy that exhibits wave-like behavior as it travels through space...
effects on the brain. Ferdinando conducted experiments with a radio receiver, enclosed in a Faraday cage
Faraday cage
A Faraday cage or Faraday shield is an enclosure formed by conducting material or by a mesh of such material. Such an enclosure blocks out external static and non-static electric fields...
, and came to the conclusion that there were paranormal phenomena.
Ferdinando created, together with Giovanni Schepis, Emilio Servadio and Luigi Sanguineti, the Italian Society of Metaphysics (SIM) in 1937. It was the first group in Italy to study paranormal activity full-time. The Italian fascist state recognized this group in 1941. The group was later renamed in 1955 to the Italian Society of Parapsychology. In 1946, the society released its first magazine, called "Metaphysics". Due to political and methodological differences, Ferdinando left the society in order to create his own group, the Italian Associated Scientists of Metaphysics.
External links
Works
- Problemi di vita manicomiale, Imola: Galeati, 1916
- Guerra, follia e degenerazione, Milano: Avanti, 1921
- La tabe dorsale alla luce delle moderne conoscenze, Bergamo: Savoldi, 1926
- Dalla metapsichica al pane quotidiano: Articoli, Como: C. Nani, 1934
- Di un fenomeno radiante cerebropsichico (riflesso cerebropsicoradiante) come mezzo di esplorazione psicobiofisica, in: Giornale di Psichiatria e di Neuropatologia (1935)
- Metapsichica, neurobiologia e metodo sperimentale: Dalla metapsichica alla psicobiofisica, in: Giornale di Psichiatria e di neuropatologia, fasc. 3-4 (1939)
- I fenomeni elettromagnetici radianti dal soggetto umano in intensa attivita (orgasmo funzionale) psicosensoriale del cervello, il metodo sperimentale e il prof. Agostino Gemelli, in: Giornale di Psichiatria e neuropatologia, fasc. 1-2 (1942)
- L'avventura di Giuseppe Massarenti: per la liberta e la dignita del cittadino, Bologna: S.T.E.B., 1946
- La Madonna di Bonate: apparizioni o visioni? Milano: Bocca, 1951
- Il cervello radiante: fenomeni elettromagnetici radianti dal cervello umano durante l'intensa attivita psicosensoriale degli stati onirici, allucinatori e telepsichici, Milano: Ceschina, 1960
- The Radiating Brain, 1960
- Le Cerveau Émetteur, ISBN 287211016X, Belgium: Collection Résurgence, 1998