Henry Morselli

Enrico Agostino Morselli (17 July 1852 – 18 February 1929) was an Italian physician and psychical researcher.

He is best known for the publication of his influential book Suicide: An Essay on Comparative Moral Statistics (1881) claiming that suicide was primarily the result of the struggle for life and nature's evolutionary process.

[1][2][3][4] According to Edward Shorter "Morselli is known outside of Italy for having coined the term dysmorphophobia.

In Italy, he is known for the psychiatry textbook A Guide to the Semiotics of Mental Illness.

He studied the medium Eusapia Palladino and concluded that some of her phenomena was genuine, being evidence for an unknown bio-psychic force present in all humans.