Testimonial letter from Riccardo Zerbetto

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This letter is one of a remarkable series of over 2650 letters amassed in 1983 to support Osho's attempt to get permanent resident status in the US at the time of the Oregon ranch. The image is reproduced here with the kind permission of The Oregon Historical Society. Information about their collection of these letters and other supporting material -- the "Jeffrey Noles Rajneesh Collection", named for Osho's immigration lawyer Jeffrey Noles, who compiled them in 1983 and donated them to the OHS -- can be found at this page. The wiki is grateful to the OHS for making access available for these documents. For more information and links to all the letters, see Testimonial letters.

This letter is from Riccardo Zerbetto. It is "Exhibit A-140" in the Noles collection.

The text version below has been created by optical character recognition (OCR), from the images supplied by OHS. It has not been checked for errors but this process usually results in over 99% correct transcription. Most apparent "errors" are correct transcriptions of typos already in the original. The image on the right in the text box links to a pdf file of the original letter, it has one page.

Dott. RICCARDO ZERBETTO
MED*** CHIRURGO
SPECIALISTA IN CLINICA DELLE MALATTIE NERVOSE E MENTALI
E NEUROPSICHIATRIA INFANTILE
AIUTO PSICHIATRA PRESSO L'OSPEDALE PSICHIATRICO DI SIENA
INC. DI PSICOPATOLOGIA NELLA SCUOLA Dl SPECIALIZZAZIONE
DELL' UNIVERSITA DI SIENA STUDI: SIENA - VIA MONTANINI, 45 - TELEF. 0577/48340
ROMA - VIA VARESE, 5 - TELEF. 06/4951633

To whom it may concern :

In my quality psychiatrist, psychotherapist, incharged processor in the University of Siena in Adolescent psychiatry, Vice-President of the Italian Association for Humanistic Psychology, consultant the Ministry of Health and of the City of Rome in the Drug Abuse field I willingly express my deep appreciation for the teachings of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh in the fields of psychotherapy, philosophy, spirituality and development of human potential. Beside my positive evaluation under the theoretical point of view I could personally verify beneficial consequences in some cases with emotional and behavioral disturbancies attending the activities of Miasto and other Italian centers belonging to the same philosophy.

In this way I found rooted in the practice of Rajneesh's disciples what I learned by reading his books, that the alive connection between him and his followers is enabling them to go very profoundly into the therapeutic process with their respective clients.

Siena, July 17th, 1983
Yours faithfully
[signed]


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