[1] 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.
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)[2] 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)[3] Giuseppe Galli was married to the developmental psychologist Anna Arfelli Galli (September 19, 1933 - May 1, 2019),[4] also a professor at the University of Macerata and of Gestalt psychological orientation.
[See also full text links on: Giuseppe Galli Page of The Society for Gestalt Theory and its Applications (GTA)]