Massimo Fagioli was an Italian psychiatrist and psychotherapist.
21 Facts About Massimo Fagioli
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Massimo Fagioli was born on 19 May 1931 in Monte Giberto, a commune situated near Fermo, Marche.
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Massimo Fagioli graduated in medicine and surgery in Rome in 1956 and then specialised in Neuropsychiatry in Modena.
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In 1957 Massimo Fagioli worked at psychiatric hospitals in Venice, where he was disappointed by the organicist practice, a methodology directly inherited from 19th century psychiatry.
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In 1975 Massimo Fagioli was appointed supervisor of a psychiatrists' group, on behalf of the Institute of Psychiatry at the University of Rome, La Sapienza.
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Massimo Fagioli was not interested in the patient's social identity but rather in the human dynamic that could arise in the rapport during the group-analytic setting.
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Massimo Fagioli was in fact accused of manipulating Bellocchio during the making of the movie.
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Massimo Fagioli's views led him to face conflicts and inevitable clashes with political exponents.
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Massimo Fagioli is the author of a large number of articles addressed and published on Lotta Continua.
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Later on, Massimo Fagioli came in touch with the Italian Radical Party, through the periodical Quaderni Radicali and more specifically and personally with Marco Pannella and Emma Bonino.
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In regards to this point, Massimo Fagioli observed the newborn physical condition in the first instants of life; a span of time around 20 seconds long when the baby is not breathing, the body has no muscle tensions and has apparently no reaction towards the external environment.
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One of the questions that Massimo Fagioli aimed to define in the Human Birth Theory is the one concerning the physiology of mind.
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Massimo Fagioli observed that newborns are completely inept at birth thus the external environment would be lethal for them without the intervention of adults.
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Massimo Fagioli postulated that light stimulation determines simultaneously the beginning of human thought activity and the emergence of what he formulated as the annulment pulsion of the non-material world.
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Massimo Fagioli considered vitality as a biological sensitivity developed by the foetus during the last weeks of pregnancy.
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Massimo Fagioli proposed a formula able to describe and coherently embody the dynamic of human birth, human thinking and its further development.
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The theoretical articulation that Massimo Fagioli expressed in these twenty-one words does not compromise his original theorisation.
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Massimo Fagioli stated that a deficiency or lack of affection in the mother-newborn relationship between breast-feeding and weaning, can determine a shift of the annulment pulsion towards the external world to an annulment pulsion towards human beings.
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Massimo Fagioli stated that the physiology of the mind is rooted in the ability to separate one's inner dimensions from previous type of object-relations without acting on them.
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Massimo Fagioli refused the common belief that the unconscious dimension is naturally ill or animalistic.
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Massimo Fagioli claimed that the possibility of curing mental illness through the interpretation of dreams becomes possible only if a non-conscious dynamic is discovered.