A Gestaltist Between Psychoanalysis and Hermeneutics

Giuseppe Galli was born in Ravenna in 1933. In 1957 he graduated in Medicine in Bologna. Here he carried out his psychological education under the guidance of Professor Renzo Canestrari and in cooperation with the psychologists of the Gestalt school, particularly Wolfgang Metzger (University of Münster) and Edwin Rausch (University of Frankfurt am Main). In 1961 he became General Psychology assistant at the Faculty of Medicine in Bologna. In 1964 he was appointed to the General Psychology Chair. Since 1966 he has taught this same subject at the University of Macerata (Academic course in Philosophy), where he became Full Professor in 1982. From 1982 to 1990 he held the function of pro-rector. In 1987 he collaborated on founding the Department of Philosophy and Human Sciences as a union of the two pre-existent Institutes of Philosophy and Pedagogy-Psychology. In 2000 he founded the Interuniversitary Centre of Studies ,Medicine and Human Sciences “Augusto Murri”’ From 2003 to 2006 he was the Director of the Department of Education Sciences and the coordinator of the PhD Course in Education Sciences. Since September 2009 he has been Professor Emeritus.