30 ICSA TODAY
Correspondents’Reports
headquarters began in Turin in May
2012, on the presumption of violation
of the law on privacy, the court seized
documents and archives to be
examined. At the heart of the matter
were the “personal” cards that
Scientology people who were asking
to join the religious organization had
submitted after preliminary talks
(so-called “auditing”) with the
organization: Once these personal
cards had been recorded in special
files, they could be viewed by the
organization’s top managers.
The prosecutor Stefano Castellani,
after examining the material collected
by the police during the search,
concluded that “there was no
dissemination of data to third parties,
nor has the action caused actual harm
to holders of the data.”The court has
closed the file. (See http://
www.blitzquotidiano.it/cronacaitalia/
gip-torino-dossier-scientology-privacy-
1074772/ for further information.)
News from Region Friuli Venezia
Giulia. On May 31, the Regional Law
12/2012 was approved by the
Regional Council of Friuli Venezia
Giulia. The law, entitled “Rules for
supporting the rights of the person
and of his whole intellectual,
psychological and moral liberty,” seeks
to support “positive projects” to
protect citizens against any form of
manipulation and control in their life,
and thus prevent the induction of
dependency through behaviors and
techniques that modify individual
self-determination. The link for the
details of the law is http://bur.regione.
fvg.it/newbur/visionaBUR?bnum=2012
/06/06/23
Passage of this law has been an
important step for the Region Friuli
Venezia Giulia, which is the only region
in Italy that has provided such an
initiative. Soon a regulation will be
approved to support Help desks and
other initiatives for the prevention
of psychological abuse by groups or
individuals. An English version of the
law is available at http://www.sos-
abusipsicologici.it/index.php/it/news
News from the Associations
The 2012 Congress of the SIPR—the
Italian Society of Psychology of
Religion, will be held in Verona, in
northern Italy. The Congress is
organized by SIPR in cooperation with
the Department of Psychology,
University of Verona (26–27 October,
2012). The title of the congress is
Religion, Spirituality, and Taking Care of
Oneself (Call for Papers at
http://www.psicologiadellareligione.it).
One section of the Congress is
entitled “Religion and Pathological
Traits (individual, cults, group
brainwashing).”
The association SOS Abusi Psicologici,
through its experts, has been coordi-
nating the activity of information and
Correspondents’Reports
headquarters began in Turin in May
2012, on the presumption of violation
of the law on privacy, the court seized
documents and archives to be
examined. At the heart of the matter
were the “personal” cards that
Scientology people who were asking
to join the religious organization had
submitted after preliminary talks
(so-called “auditing”) with the
organization: Once these personal
cards had been recorded in special
files, they could be viewed by the
organization’s top managers.
The prosecutor Stefano Castellani,
after examining the material collected
by the police during the search,
concluded that “there was no
dissemination of data to third parties,
nor has the action caused actual harm
to holders of the data.”The court has
closed the file. (See http://
www.blitzquotidiano.it/cronacaitalia/
gip-torino-dossier-scientology-privacy-
1074772/ for further information.)
News from Region Friuli Venezia
Giulia. On May 31, the Regional Law
12/2012 was approved by the
Regional Council of Friuli Venezia
Giulia. The law, entitled “Rules for
supporting the rights of the person
and of his whole intellectual,
psychological and moral liberty,” seeks
to support “positive projects” to
protect citizens against any form of
manipulation and control in their life,
and thus prevent the induction of
dependency through behaviors and
techniques that modify individual
self-determination. The link for the
details of the law is http://bur.regione.
fvg.it/newbur/visionaBUR?bnum=2012
/06/06/23
Passage of this law has been an
important step for the Region Friuli
Venezia Giulia, which is the only region
in Italy that has provided such an
initiative. Soon a regulation will be
approved to support Help desks and
other initiatives for the prevention
of psychological abuse by groups or
individuals. An English version of the
law is available at http://www.sos-
abusipsicologici.it/index.php/it/news
News from the Associations
The 2012 Congress of the SIPR—the
Italian Society of Psychology of
Religion, will be held in Verona, in
northern Italy. The Congress is
organized by SIPR in cooperation with
the Department of Psychology,
University of Verona (26–27 October,
2012). The title of the congress is
Religion, Spirituality, and Taking Care of
Oneself (Call for Papers at
http://www.psicologiadellareligione.it).
One section of the Congress is
entitled “Religion and Pathological
Traits (individual, cults, group
brainwashing).”
The association SOS Abusi Psicologici,
through its experts, has been coordi-
nating the activity of information and
