Renzo Canestrari

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Renzo Canestrari (born August 19, 1924 in Piagge ; † January 28, 2017 in Bologna ) was an Italian doctor and psychologist .

Life

After completing his medical studies in 1951, Canestrari took part in Rome at the first Italian congress of psychologists after the Second World War and in 1953 at the first Italian congress for clinical psychology . He also got to know the Italian Gestalt psychologists Cesare Musatti , Fabio Metelli and Gaetano Kanizsa , who were to determine his psychological orientation significantly. After working with Musatti and Kanizsa in some perceptual psychological research, Canestrari received his university teaching license in 1957 and then taught for three years at the University of Salerno . In 1960 he was appointed to the first chair in clinical psychology at the University of Bologna . The focus of his teaching activities and the research work he directed was experimental psychology based on gestalt theory. There was also a regular collaboration with the German gestalt psychologist Wolfgang Metzger . Canestrari's students - one speaks of the gestaltpsychological “School of Bologna” - include Anna Arfelli Galli , Giuseppe Galli , Mario Fame, Paolo Bonaiuto, Alberto Ranzi, Pietro Tampieri, Giuliana Giovanelli, Giancarlo Trombini , Vincenzo Faenza, Augusto Palmonari and Gabriella Bartoli. Renzo Canestrari has been a member of the Advisory Board of the international multidisciplinary journal Gestalt Theory since 1979 . In 1991 he founded the Dipartimento della Formazione (the Faculty of Education) of the Università degli Studi della Repubblica di San Marino . Since 1989 he was a member of the Academia Europaea .

Fonts (selection)

  • 1974 Guida alla psicologia . Firenze.
  • 1975 (with Giancarlo Trombini) Psychotherapy as a restructuring of the field . In: Ertel u. Kemmler (ed.), Gestalt theory in modern psychology , Darmstadt, ISBN 3-798-50400-8 , pp. 266-273.
  • 1978: Psicologia fuori programma . Bologna.
  • 1986 Psicologia generale e dello sviluppo . Bologna, ISBN 8-880-91223-2 .
  • 1993 Freud e la ricerca psicologica .
  • 1994 (with Antonio Godino) Manuale di psicologia . Bologna, ISBN 8-880-91584-3 .
  • 1995 La percezione . Bologna, ISBN 8-880-91239-9 .
  • 1996 Some reflections on ideology and scientific research . European Review / Volume4 / Issue02 April 1996, pp 97-106.
  • 2002 Itinerari del ciclo della vita. Adolescenza, mezza età, vecchiaia , Bologna, ISBN 8-849-11989-5 .
  • 2010 Gestalt Psychology in my Scientific Training and at the Start of the School of Bologna . Gestalt Theory 32 (1), 79-84.

Web links

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  1. ↑ http://www.ansa.it/emiliaromagna/notizie/2017/01/29/psicologia-morto-renzo-canestrari_3c640e4c-9691-4227-a5d0-061dccfc9c10.html
  2. ^ See Renzo Canestrari (2010), Gestalt Psychology in my Scientific Training and at the Start of the School of Bologna .
  3. ^ Membership directory: Renzo Canestrari. Academia Europaea, accessed October 3, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Canestrari, Renzo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian medic and psychologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 19, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Piagge , Italy
DATE OF DEATH January 28, 2017
Place of death Bologna