PhD Candidate in Psychology of Religion at Pontifical Salesian University in Rome. She set up a Centre of Information on cults, New Religious Movements and Anti-cult Movements: the Online Center www.dimarzio.it. She is a member of the managing board of SIPR (Italian Society of Psychology of Religion)and Italian contact for NGO Human Rights Without Frontiers.She has B.A. degrees in Psychology (University “La Sapienza” of Rome, 1981), Educational Science (Pontifical Salesian University, 1981) and History of Religions (University “La Sapienza” of Rome, 2003) and Religious Science (Institute for Religious Studies Ecclesia. She has been a Catholic religion teacher in a senior high school in Rome since 1981. Dr. Di Marzio is ICSA Today’s News Co-Correspondent for Italy. She is in demand as a cult expert for TV and radio shows and lectures widely. Websites: http://cultreligionspirituality.blogspot.com/ (English), http://www.dimarzio.it (in Italian and English), YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/raffaelladimarzio#g/a.