Giuseppe Galli

Giuseppe Galli (February 24, 1933 in Ravenna, Italy – September 9, 2016 in Macerata, Italy) was an Italian physician and psychologist. He was Full Professor of General Psychology at the University of Macerata from 1982 to 2009.

After completing his medical studies at the University of Bologna, a short study visit to Austria and a specialist training in endocrinology at the University of Florence, Giuseppe Galli turned from 1960 to Gestalt psychology, mentored by Renzo Canestrari at the University of Bologna. From 1966 Giuseppe Galli taught psychology at the University of Macerata, from 1982 as a Full Professor for General Psychology, a position which he held until his retirement in 2009.

Galli's main research interests were the phenomenology of the ego, personality psychology and the psychology of social virtues, as well as hermeneutics and intersemiotics (transferring the meaning from one sign system to another, e.g. from the picture into a text) In a large number of his contributions he devoted himself to applying Gestalt psychology in the field of psychotherapy, being viewed as an authoritative representative of Gestalt Theoretical Psychotherapy.

From 1979, Galli was on the advisory board of the international multidisciplinary journal ''Gestalt Theory'' (De Gruyter). In 2007, he became an honorary member of the ''International Society for Gestalt Theory and its Applications'' (GTA)

Giuseppe Galli was married to the developmental psychologist Anna Arfelli Galli (September 19, 1933 - May 1, 2019), also a professor at the University of Macerata and of Gestalt psychological orientation. Provided by Wikipedia