18 Facts About Vittorio Benussi

Vittorio Benussi was an Austrian-Italian psychologist.

Vittorio Benussi was an Austrian-Italian psychologist born on 17 January 1878 in Trieste.

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.

Vittorio Benussi studied alongside Meinong where he was introduced to object theory, crucial development toward gestalt theory.

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

Vittorio Benussi developed one of the first lie detection tests.

Vittorio Benussi was credited for extensively studying unconscious mental phenomena including dreams, and the body's influence on emotions of the mind, in addition to mental analysis and hypnosis.

Together with Stephan Witasek and Alois Hofler, Vittorio Benussi explored the process of generating perceptual configurations from the same sensory elements.

Vittorio Benussi believed that intellectual and emotional functions did not exist dependent of our reactions and he connected those brain functions to emotional life's thoughts and images.

Vittorio Benussi invented sonno base, a hypnotic state meaning 'basic sleep'.

Vittorio Benussi did this out of the belief that emotional states emerge in pure, isolated forms while sleeping.

Vittorio Benussi adopts the term mental functions to describe mental phenomena and psychological functions of organisms.

Vittorio Benussi's case confirmed emotional autonomy in specific mental states of consciousness and a relationship between intentional mental processes and nonintentional ones.

Vittorio 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.

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

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

Vittorio Benussi began a new life there and was hired as a professor at their University.

Vittorio Benussi claimed to have died the same way in a dream he had years prior.