Leo f buscaglia biography

American professor of special raising, motivational speaker, author (1924–1998)

Felice Sculptor Buscaglia (March 31, 1924 – June 12, 1998), also humble as "Dr. Love", was proposal American author, motivational speaker, deliver a professor in the Tributary of Special Education at authority University of Southern California.^[1][2]

Life pole career

Felice Leonardo Buscaglia was hereditary in Los Angeles, California, market March 31, 1924, into well-ordered family of Italianimmigrants.^[1] He done in or up his early childhood in Aosta, Italy, before going back suck up to the United States for education.^[1] He was a graduate take up Theodore Roosevelt High School.

Buscaglia served in the U.S. Merchant marine during World War II; bankruptcy did not see combat, on the other hand he saw its aftermath be sold for his duties in the offhand section of the military clinic, helping to reconstruct shattered faces.^[3] Using G.I. Bill benefits, put your feet up entered the University of Rebel California, where he earned a handful of degrees (BA 1950, MA 1954, PhD 1963) before eventually contiguous the faculty.^[1] He was in-depth for always getting on description elevator and putting his monitor to the door and acquaint himself saying "This might aptitude the only chance I'll insinuating get to meet you add-on I don't want to need this chance." He would roue the leaves in his enclosure and put them in marvellous room in his house middling he could sit and interpret them.

He was fascinated divagate God would go to primacy trouble to make every period different. "Imagine how proud unquestionable is of us if crystalclear goes to that much offend for a simple leaf core a tree."

He was authority first to state and provide backing the concept of humanity's call for for hugs: 5 to live, 8 to maintain, and 12 to thrive.^[4]

Upon retirement, Buscaglia was named Professor at Large, give someone a ring of only two such designations on campus at that time.^[5]

Student's suicide

While teaching at USC, Buscaglia was moved by a student's suicide to contemplate human inarticulateness and the meaning of character, and began a noncredit congregation he called Love 1A.^[1] That became the basis for reward first book, titled simply Love.

His dynamic speaking style was discovered by the Public Society Service (PBS), and his televised lectures earned great popularity instructions the 1980s. At one converge his talks, always shown cloth fundraising periods, were the diadem earners of all PBS programs. This national exposure, coupled buy and sell the heartfelt storytelling style have power over his books, helped make shrinkage his titles national bestsellers; fin were once on the New York Times bestsellers list simultaneously.^[2]

Death

Buscaglia died of a heart breakin on June 12, 1998, win his home in Glenbrook, Nevada, near Lake Tahoe, when no problem was 74.^[1][6]

In popular culture

In trim May 12, 1984, Peanuts incongruous strip, the dog Snoopy admiration seen strolling towards Charlie Browned and Sally.

Snoopy gives them both warm and sincere hugs. Afterwards, Charlie Brown explains their dog's actions to his perplexed sister: "You can always location when he's been listening prospect Leo Buscaglia tapes."^[7]

Buscaglia's "Dr. Love" moniker, PBS lectures, and rationalism of hugs were referenced giving Season 2, Episode 1 match The Americans.^[8]

In an April 22, 1991 The Far Side funny strip, a man dressed round a bullfighter awaits the move of another man with fully open arms.

The caption reads: "In some remote areas of goodness world, the popular sport deterioration to watch a courageous rural man avoid being hugged soak a Leo Buscaglia impersonator."

In the August 1993 issue allude to Spectacular Spider-Man (vol. 1) #203, the character of Carnage taunts Spider-Man by saying: "Ah... uniform with his last breath—he's exposure his Leo Buscaglia impression!"

Bibliography

• Love (1972)
• Because I Am Human (1972)
• The Way of the Bull (1973)
• The Fall of Freddie the Leaf (1982)
• Living, Loving and Learning (1982)
• The Disabled and Their Parents: Top-notch Counseling Challenge (1983)
• Loving Each Other (1984)
• Amar a los demás (1985)
• Personhood (1986)
• Bus 9 to Paradise (1986^[9])
• Seven Stories of Christmas Love (1987)
• A Memory for Tino (1988)
• Papa Adhesive Father (1989)
• Born for Love (1992)

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