Antonio Virgili (born in

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, 1957) is an

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social sciences and integrative medicine

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, and

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. 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

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as an Honorary Judge at Youth Courts. He has authored numerous articles, essays, and books, and is a scholar of

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and heraldic and symbology studies. He is also the second

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. He inherited the title from his father: Fernando Virgili the first duke of Castelvenere.

Career

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. He was a collaborator at the

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, and also chairman for

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of the International Council of Integrative Medicine in

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. 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 centre UNILUDES (Lugano). He is also 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

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and

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. He is a member of The Society of the Friends of St. George's, the Istituto Italiano per l´Africa e l´Oriente; the Society for Geographical Studies, the

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, the American Psychosomatic Society, the Italian Society of Economics Demography and Statistics, the

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and the

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. 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 cities like New York, Paris, Malta, and Tokyo.

Honors and awards

* Bagrationi Dynasty (Royal House of Georgia): Knight Grand Cross of the

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House of Braganza The Most Serene House of Braganza (), also known as the Brigantine dynasty (''dinastia Brigantina''), is a dynasty of emperors, kings, princes, and dukes of Portuguese people, Portuguese origin which reigned in Europe and the Americas. The hous ...

: Commander of the

Order of Saint Michael of the Wing The Royal Equestrian and Military Order of Saint Michael of the Wing (, ) is a Portuguese Roman Catholic dynastic order that is believed to have been founded in 1147 in the Alcobaça Monastery in Alcobaça, Portugal, by King Afonso I of Portug ...

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: Knight of the Royal Civil Order of Savoy *

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: 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 Academic staff of the University of Naples Federico II Academics from Naples