On the theoretical level, Ontopsychology appeared in 1971 with Antonio Meneghetti's book Ontopsicologia dell'uomo (Ontopsychology of Man). The motivation behind the movement comes from the experience of the crisis of humanistic values, and especially from the intuition that there is a foundation to existence.

Thirty years were to follow, marked by intense clinical, educational and demonstrative practice across Europe , China and America , with sixteen international congresses and one world congress. Over thirty books have been written in Italian and translated into Russian, English, Portuguese, French, Spanish and Chinese; while collaboration protocols have been set up with universities accross the world, some of which have established specific postgraduate courses focusing on Ontopsychology.

Throughout this time, Ontopsychology has received a great deal of attention, based especially on the evidence of its effective application to psychotherapy and psychosomatics, resulting in the disappearance of the symptom. In the Ontopsychological perspective, however, the psychotherapeutic resolution is just one of its tools; its real aim is that of educating leaders - those who can provide solutions for the collective.

Based on the same premises, more applications were pursued, in the arts, politics and economics, characterised by rapid progress and an incisive methodology of study. The vision behind these applications is to enable operative leaders to give up their memetic consciousness (or stereotyped culture) while recovering their ontic consciousness, i.e. ontological knowledge of the living culture of life.

These thirty years of practice have been marked by many connections, projects and relationships with public institutions; more importantly, they have led many new, operative minds to greater maturity, greater responsibility and pleasure in their commitment to life on this planet. Today, Ontopsychology is considered as a median term for interdisciplinary knowledge since it addresses operative leaders within the global context, from epistemic research to the "Internet" vision.