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- ↑ Zuczkowski, Andrzej (2013): Giuseppe Galli on his 80th Birthday - A Gestaltist Between Psychoanalysis and Hermeneutics Archived 2018-04-15 at the Wayback Machine . Gestalt Theory, 35(4), 309-314.
- ↑ cf. for the wide range of his scientific work: Zuczkowski, Andrzej & Ivana Bianchi (eds., 2009): L'analisi qualitativa dell'esperienza diretta. Festschrift in onore di Giuseppe Galli. Roma: Aracne. ISBN 9788854829169
- ↑ see: Honorary Members of the GTA, 14.4.2018
- ↑ German Wikipedia Page [ circular reference ]
