Giuseppe Galli

This article deals with the psychologist Giuseppe Gall. For the set designer and painter, see Giuseppe Galli da Bibiena .

Giuseppe Galli (born February 24, 1933 in Ravenna ; † September 9, 2016 ) was an Italian doctor and psychologist . From 1982 to 2009 he was Full Professor of General Psychology at Macerata University .

Live and act

After completing his medical studies at the University of Bologna , a short study stay in Austria and a specialist training in endocrinology at the University of Florence , Giuseppe Galli turned to Gestalt psychology , with which he became familiar with Renzo Canestrari at the University of Bologna from 1960 . From 1966 Giuseppe Galli taught psychology at the University of Macerata, from 1982 on the chair for general psychology, which he held until his retirement in 2009.

Galli's main research areas, with which he also became known in German-speaking countries, 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 system of signs to another, e.g. from the image in a text). In a large number of his contributions he devoted himself to conveying gestalt psychological methods and findings in the field of psychotherapy; His posthumously published anthology Der Mensch als Mit-Mensch (2017) identifies him as an authoritative representative of Gestalt theory psychotherapy .

Galli was a member of the Advisory Board of the international multidisciplinary journal Gestalt Theory from 1979 . In 2007 he became an honorary member of the international society for Gestalt theory and its applications .

Giuseppe Galli was married to developmental psychologist Anna Arfelli Galli , who is also a professor at the University of Macerata and who, like him, is gestalt psychological oriented.

Fonts (selection)

The following were published in German:

• 1975: Structure and dynamics of the phenomenal self. In: Suitbert Ertel, Lilly Kemmler , Michael Stadler (eds.): Gestalt theory in modern psychology. Wolfgang Metzger on his 75th birthday. Steinkopff, Darmstadt, pp. 124-133.
• 1980: The analysis of the phenomenal ego and the scope of gestalt theory. In: Gestalt Theory . 2 (1/2), 71-77.
• 1983: Psychoanalysis and Gestalt Theory. Two methods in comparison. In: Gestalt Theory. 5 (1), 23-29.
• 1998: Psychology of the Body. Phenomenology and hermeneutics. Böhlau, Vienna, ISBN 3-205-98929-5 .
• 1999: Psychology of Social Virtues. Böhlau, Vienna; 2nd, expanded edition 2005, ISBN 3-205-77308-X .
• 2010: Gestalt Psychology and Person. Developments in Gestalt Psychology. Krammer, Vienna, ISBN 978-3-901811-43-2 .
• 2017: The human being as fellow human being. Essays on Gestalt theory in research, application and dialogue. Edited and introduced by Gerhard Stemberger . Krammer, Vienna, ISBN 978-3-901811-75-3 .

literature

• Andrzej Zuczkowski, Ivana Bianchi (eds.): L'analisi qualita dell'esperienza diretta. Festschrift in onore di Giuseppe Galli. Aracne, Rome 2009, ISBN 978-88-548-2916-9 ( table of contents, introduction and self-presentation by Gallis ).
• Andrzej Zuczkowski: Giuseppe Galli on his 80th Birthday - A Gestaltist Between Psychoanalysis and Hermeneutics ( Gestalt Theory 35 , 4/2013, 309-314).
• Gerhard Stemberger: Obituary for Giuseppe Galli ( Gestalt Theory 38 , 2/3/2016, 119–126).

Web links

• Galli: On the question of self-knowledge and the knowledge of the other (PDF; 566 kB)
• Galli: Creative freedom and authority (PDF; 516 kB)
• Galli: Gestalt psychologists and depth psychologists visit Ravenna, the city of the mosaic (PDF; 4.5 MB)
• Giuseppe Galli, GTA personal page (with full-text links)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ E 'morto Giuseppe Galli, aveva 83 anni , Il Resto del Carlino, September 9, 2016, accessed on September 11, 2016.
2. ↑ Cf. Giuseppe Galli: GTA members introduced: Giuseppe Galli. In: ÖAGP / DAGP information. Vol. 15 (2006), No. 2, p. 5 f. ( PDF ; self-presentation).
3. ↑ cf. on this Rainer Kästl, obituary for Giuseppe Galli .