Antonio Virgili

Antonio Virgili (born in Naples, 1957) is an Italian professor, researcher, and consultant. For over thirty-five years, he has studied human sciences and social and integrative medicine. He is the scientific director of the Italian Institute of Social Sciences, president of the Centro Studi Internazionali, president of Corpo Italiano di San Lazzaro, and vice president of the Lazarus Union. In 2019, he was appointed by the High Council of the Judiciary and the Ministry of Justice as an Honorary Judge at Youth Courts. He has authored numerous articles, essays, and books, and is a scholar of esotericism and heraldic and symbology studies. He is also the second Duke of Castelvenere. He inherited the title from his father, the first Duke of Castelvenere Fernando Virgili.

Biography

Virgili graduated with a degree in sociology from the University of Naples Federico II. He later obtained an additional degree in psychological sciences and techniques and in clinical psychology from the Guglielmo Marconi University. He specialized in social psychiatry and psychotechnics at the faculty of medicine of the University of Naples "Federico II" and is trained as a social and health educator. He continued his studies at various universities and institutions such as the Sapienza University of Rome, Tor Vergata University of Rome, University of Florence, the Diplomatic Institute, and further Italian and foreign centres, obtaining two masters, and earned the title of Medicine Doctor in Alternative Medicine MD (AM) and a specialization in neurosociology. Among others, he has expanded his studies at the School for Advanced Studies of the Italian Institute for Philosophical Studies and the Baylor College of Medicine.

Activities

After a period of field research in 1983, Virgili obtained a position as a professor of social psychology and methodology of social research at the Higher Institute of Sociology. Already a collaborator at the University of Naples "Federico II", he was chairman for medical anthropology of the International Council of Integrative Medicine (Australia). He was among the founding members of the Asian Population Association and the Victimology Support International Observatory and Network-VISION, as the coordinator of the department for "Stress, post-traumatic stress and DAS". He is currently the scientific director of the Italian Institute of Social Sciences and the Center of International Studies; Professor of neuro-social sexology at UNISED, and professor at the university center UNILUDES (Lugano). He is a researcher and consultant in social sciences, neurosciences and clinical reflexology.

Virgili has authored over fifty essays and scientific articles and has worked with various newspapers. He has lectured at dozens of conferences for disseminating science and collaborated with Rotary International, Lions Club International and Kiwanis.

Scholar of history and heraldry, life member of The Society of the Friends of St. George's, Virgili is also a member of numerous scientific organizations including the Istituto Italiano per l´Africa e l´Oriente; the Society for Geographical Studies, the New York Academy of Sciences, the American Psychosomatic Society, the Italian Society of Economics Demography and Statistics, the European Sociological Association and the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality. He is the chairman of the Culture Commission at LIDU (Italian League for Human Rights) and one of the international vice presidents of the Lazarus Union (International NGO). As an artist he has exhibited his photos in New York, Paris, Malta, Tokyo etc.

Honors and Awards

* Bagrationi Dynasty (Royal House of Georgia): Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Eagle of Georgia
* House of Braganza: Commander of the Order of Saint Michael of the Wing
* House of Savoy: Knight of the Royal Civil Order of Savoy
* House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies: Bronze Medal of Merit of the Two Sicilian Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George

Books

* ''Modernizzazione e transizione demografica'', ISS, Napoli, 1982
* ''Il personale delle Unità Sanitarie Locali in Campania'' (co-autore), CNITE, Roma, 1984
* ''La contraccezione nelle adolescenti''" (co-autore con F. ferraro), Ricerca Medica Ed., 1984
* ''Trasformazioni urbane e domanda di integrazione spaziale: il caso della 167 di Secondigliano'' (co-autore), LAN/FORMEZ, Napoli, 1985
* ''Saggi scelti'', Ed. Accad. Pontzen, Napoli, 1996
* ''L´Øresund: regione transfrontaliera della nuova Europa'', Mem. Geografiche, Univ. Firenze, 1996
* ''Itinerari di scienze sociali'', Ed. CSI, Napoli, 1999
* ''Storia dell'Ordine militare e ospedaliere di San Giovanni d'Acri e San Tommaso'', Ediz. Anselmi, Napoli, 1999
* ''New perspectives in teaching activity: artificial environments and new technologies'', Working Papers, Arion, 2001
* ''La rivoluzione silenziosa'', Ed. CSI/Anselmi, Napoli, 2002.
* ''La bottega dei saperi: percorsi tra storia e geografia'' (co-autore), Ediz. IRRE, Napoli, 2002
* ''Il fantasma del localismo'', Ummarino Editore, Napoli, 2003
* ''Aspetti dell'eredità bizantina'', Ed. OSS/CSI, Napoli 2003
* ''La formazione a distanza'', Ed. CERGE, Napoli 2004
* ''La tradizione napoleonica'', Ed. CSI, Napoli, 2005.
* ''Lessons of Clinical Reflexology'', RS Ed., (I ed.), 2007
* ''Culti misterici ed orientali a Pompei'', Gangemi, Roma, 2008.
* ''Prevenzione, benessere e medicina integrativa'', (Dispense corso seminariale), Ediz. El., 2010
* ''Nuove frontiere della ricerca psico-socio-sanitaria'', (Dispense corso seminariale) Ediz. El., 2011
* ''Benessere e prevenzione: l'apporto delle neuroscienze'', (Dispense corso seminariale) Ediz. El., 2012
* ''Stress e sistemi corporei nell'approccio pnei'', CSI, Napoli, 2013
* ''Diffusione e sintomatologia dei disturbi da stress post-traumatico, ''Aggiornamenti di studio, 2013
* ''Dalle relazioni mente corpo alle relazioni interpersonali'', (Dispense corso seminariale) Ediz.El, 2014
* ''Neurosociologia e neuroscienze applicate'', CSI, Napoli, 2014

References

*''A Guide to Masters'', CSO, Milan, 1996
*''A Guide to Masters'', CSO, Milan, 1997
*''Marquis Who'Who in the World'', NJ, 1997

{{DEFAULTSORT:Virgili, Antonio
1957 births
Italian psychologists
Living people
University of Naples Federico II alumni
University of Naples Federico II faculty
People from Naples