Ferdinando Cazzamalli

Ferdinando Cazzamalli (1887–1958) was an Italian psychiatrist from Crema, Lombardy, who was also interested in paranormal phenomena.

Biography

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.

External links

• Homepage of the Italian Associated Scientists of Methaphysics (in Italian)

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