[2] At the age of 18, Benussi moved to Italy where he earned money by working at the library in the Graz School of Gestalt theory.

Benussi was also introduced to famous psychologist Franz Brentano’s theory of descriptive psychology during his time in Graz.

[2] Together with Stephan Witasek and Alois Höfler, Benussi explored the process of generating perceptual configurations from the same sensory elements.

Throughout his interest in Freudian psychology, Benussi made theoretical discoveries of the field of psychoanalysis adaptable to experimental tests.

This hypnotic state was considered by Biagio Tassone as what “very well may be Benussi’s greatest achievement in advancing descriptive psychology,”.

Benussi discovered that while she was hypnotized, he could make suggestions and produce various instructions about what he wanted Signorelli to focus on when she awoke.

Benussi's work was intersectional enough to be generalize to fields of contemporary neurosciences, biology, pragmatics, as well as phenomenology and enactivism.

He became an Italian citizen after World War I and unfortunately lost his librarian position in Graz after Italy declared Trieste a new territory.