Antonella Canonico
Antonella Canonico
is an Italian researcher and psychologist. She is an expert in mind-body
therapy and is cofounder and CEO of
iLabs, a multidisciplinary private
research institute based in Milan.
Soon after earning her degree in Psychology (Honors) from the University
of
Lubiana — with a dissertation entitled To Die without Fear.
Death in our Culture and Two Proposals to Face it — she
specialized in Brief Strategic Therapy. Most of her time is spent in
therapy — she’s been working in psycho-oncology for the last
fifteen years while conducting new research. She’s one of the few
Italian
psychologists that has mastered hypnosis, meditation, and
PNL.
In 1996 she created a free web service for psychological assistance,
probably the
first of this kind in Italy. In the meantime she worked to improve the
popularity of psychoneurophysiology
among her colleagues. Pioneered by Robert Ader, psychoneurophysiology
was soon found to be extremely
effective in the recovery of subjects with cancer. In 2002 she founded
Buddhamam, a 1000 square meter wellness
centre near Milan, awarded by Future Concept Lab as one of the best new
wellness centres in Europe. She’s been working with Coviello
Association since 2003. Coviello
Association is a nonprofit institution that
helps to improve the lives of people affected by leukaemia.
Together with Gabriele Rossi, her husband, she develops qualitative and
quantitative models of cognitive
processes. The last iLabs model — that explains away all the
variety of
human
reasoning with just three “sub-minds” — is the result of years
spent
studying and experiencing cognition and emotion in all their subtleties.
In 2007 she coauthored
Semi-Immortality. The indefinite
extension of lifespan. This book
celebrates thirty years of research, explaining the iLabs vision
of science, philosophy, and technology for the
future of mankind.
Watch
Antonella Canonico al Filologico,
Intervista a Telecolor Parte1,
Intervista a Telecolor Parte2,
Intervista a Telecolor Parte3, and
Semi-immortalità.