Mario Di Fiorino


Mario Di Fiorino is an Italian psychiatrist and Director of Psychiatry at the Ospedale Versilia in Lido di Camaiore, Italy till 31 May 2023. The author of numerous scientific papers and books, his main areas of research are related to mental manipulation, violence, and dissociative disorders.

Life and career

Di Fiorino was born in Forte dei Marmi and received his medical degree from the University of Pisa in 1978. He went on to qualify as a specialist in psychiatry in 1982 and child neuropsychiatry in 1986. Before 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 in Mantua and taught in the school of Clinical Criminology at the University of Modena. At the time he worked as a forensic psychiatrist and was appointed by the defense of Marco Bergamo a serial killer, who murdered five women between 1985 and 1992. At first Di Fiorino argued that the client was not culpable with mental illness. Introna, director of Forensic Medicine at the University of Padua, appointed by the Court of Assizes of Bolzano, agreed with this thesis and declared Marco Bergamo not liable for mental illness proposing his interment in a Judicial Psychiatric Hospital.
As a forensic psychiatrist, he dealt with a famous case for the cult litigation in Italy. He was appointed by the Public Prosecutor of Brescia in the matter relating to a failed deprogramming of a member of Scientology in many European psychiatric congresses
He was the drafter of the bill "Amendments to articles 33, 34 and 35 of the law of 23 December 1978, n 833, concerning voluntary and compulsory health checks and treatments presented in July 2018 to the Senate

Selected publications

  • Di Fiorino, Mario; Cirillo, Mauro; Carlesi, Giovanni.. "Considerations on suicide in substance dependence". Minerva psichiatrica, Vol. 26, No 2, pp. 215–216.
  • Di Fiorino, Mario. . Psichiatria e Territorio. Published in English translation by J. Wilson Fledd as . Del Bucchia.
  • Betti, Mario; Di Fiorino, Mario. . McGraw-Hill Companies. Mario Di Fiorino : La persuasione socialmente accettata, il plagio e il lavaggio del cervello, Forte dei Marmi, Psichiatria e Territorio vol. I, 1990.
  • Di Fiorino, Mario. . Moretti & Vitali.
  • Caparesi, Cristina; Di Fiorino, Mario; Kent, Stephen. Costretti ad amare: Saggi sui Bambini di Dio/The Family. Psichiatria e Territorio
  • Di Fiorino, Mario. "La costruzione moderna delle 'comunità artificiali' settarie" in Eugenio Fizzotti, pp. 121–142. Paoline.
  • Di Fiorino, Mario; Gemignani, Alfredo. . Psichiatria e Territorio.
  • Di Fiorino, Mario; Martinucci, Mirko. .. Psichiatria e Territorio..
  • Di Fiorino, Mario; Pacciardi, Bruno. . Psichiatria e Territorio.
  • Di Fiorino Mario “The Italian experiment, fruit of ideological passion” La Vela
  • Di Fiorino Mario e Martinucci Mirko, Alcoolismo e tossicomania. Una guida per pazienti e familiari. Psichiatria e Territorio, 2006"
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