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| | | Historical Perspectives | | Massimo BIONDI | Marco Levi Bianchini: A Forgotten Italian Supporter of Parapsychology | 323-328 | | | Abstract: —For different reasons, many of the past Italian psychical researchers
are only half known or are completely forgotten today. This is the case of
the neuropsychiatrist Marco Levi Bianchini, who worked in the fi rst half of the
20th century. Beside his conventional clinical activity, he was engaged in a lot of
different topics, but at present he is remembered fi rst of all to have been the fi rst,
or one of the fi rst, professionals to introduce and promote psychoanalytic
doctrine in Italy. Levi Bianchini was very interested in, and looked with favour
on, metapsychical issues, and in particular psi cognitive phenomena. He published a few papers on telepathic and precognitive dreams, and he adhered to the
ideas that Cazzamalli was developing about some asserted brain radio-emissions
that should be able to explain effects such as dowsing, telepathy, and precognition. More than his original contributions to the parapsychology literature,
an undoubted historical merit of Marco Levi Bianchini was his job as a book
reviewer, which he performed during all his life, introducing to the academic
and psychiatric circles in Italy hundreds of international and national books
on parapsychological topics, therefore greatly promoting this culture in the
country. |
| | | Book Reviews | | Barry GREENWOOD | Encounters at Indian Head: The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Abduction Revisited, by Karl Pflock and Peter Brookesmith; Captured! The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience, by Stanton T. Friedman and Kathleen Marden | 376-381 | | | Review: Stanton T. FRIEDMAN, Kathleen MARDEN,CAPTURED! - 2007, Karl T. PFLOCK, Peter BROOKESMITH (eds.),ENCOUNTERS AT INDIAN HEAD - 2007 | | | John ALEXANDER | UFOs and Nukes: Extraordinary Encounters at Nuclear Weapons Sites, by Robert L. Hastings | 381-384 | | | Review: Robert HASTINGS,UFOS AND NUKES - 2008 | |
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