Curriculum Vitae
Betty Sacco German Ch. de la Vulliette, 35 1000 Lausanne 25 Phone: 021 626 23 18 betty.sacco unil.ch
Nationalities: Italian
Personal Profile I am a Jungian analyst and psychotherapist, I work in Lausanne in private including career practice with adult individuals and couples, and I teach Psychology at highlights, and Webster University, Geneva. personal After a Masters in Italian Literature and Theory of Literature from the information University of Rome La Sapienza, I studied at the C.G. Institute in Zurich, where I obtained my Psychoanalytic Diploma, with a thesis on The House as a Symbol of the Human Psyche. My research interests are about the relationship between individual and collective psyche, psychology and culture, and narcissism, with an emphasis on children of narcissistic mothers. I am Italian, married to an American and mother of two daughters who are citizens of the World. I have been in Switzerland since 1990 and I have an interest for what is ‘other’ from me: culture, individuals, lifestyles, languages, and ideas. My commitment is to life and peace. Education 2002 Jung Institute, Küsnacht, Switzerland. Psychoanalytic Diploma Title of the thesis: The house as a symbol of human psyche.
1994 University of Dorigny, Ecole de Français ModerneLausanne, Switzerland Diplôme d’aptitude à l’enseignement du français langue étrangère. It entitles one to teach French as second language.
1988 University La Sapienza Rome, Italy Masters of Arts in Italian Literature. Title of the thesis :La nuova enciclopedia di Alberto Savinio (The new encyclopedia of A.S.) Major: 20th century Italian literature and Literature theory.
Professional ExperienceSince 2002 Psychoanalytic practice.
Private practice as a Jungian analyst working with adults, both individuals and couples.
Since 2009 Webster University Bellevue-Geneva, Switzerland Adjunct professor in the Psychology Department. Courses: Clinical Psychology, History and Systems, Peace Psychology.
2001-2003 Webster University Bellevue-Geneva, Switzerland Adjunct professor of Introduction to Literature and Perspectives in Literature.
1999-2003 IMD, International Institute for Management Development Lausanne, Switzerland. Consultant in Human Resources Instructed a course on Personal Development (individual feedback). Facilitated group work for outdoor exercises (group work and feedback).
1997-2002 Supervised psychoanalytic practice Started seeing clients in private practice as a diploma candidate at the C.G. Jung Institute.
1990-1998 Italian, Latin and History Teacher Taught in the following high schools: Liceo Pareto and Italian Consulate, Cantonal High Schools of Lausanne, Ecole des Arches, Institut Le Rosey (Rolle et Gstaad). Taught Latin, History, Italian Language and Literature.
Other Activities
2009-2016 Member of the selection committee, Lavigny Jungian formation continue Selected lecturers, seminar leaders,and topics for seminars and lectures.
2001-2004 Editor of “La Vouivre” Georg Publications, Geneva, Switzerland. Selected and edited articles for publication.
Professional Trained as a facilitator in restorative circles by Dominic Bart, February 8th Development to13th, 2011). Intervision of analytical cases. Participation in congresses and writing.
Teaching See above experience at Webster
Professional AGAP, IAAP, SGAP, IFP.
Memberships IAAP
Awards and Honors
Publications Home, Place, Identity in Arese Visconti, F. (editor), Idden Identity, Aion Edizioni, 2015, pp.17-39.
Identity, Trauma, and Integration in Arese Visconti F., We, Prato, Prato, Ed. Sui, 2015, pp.29-36.
La Casa Onirica nel Processo di Individuazione in <
Piccolo Glossario di Parole ‘Streuse’ in Miscellanea Carovillese, Campobasso, Il Bene Comune, 2010. Edited by Edilio Petrocelli.
La Tours de Mars in “La Vouivre”, Geneva, Georg Publishing, 2003.
Conference Papers 2009 2 2015: Humanitarian Conference, Webster University, Geneva. Presented (February) ( The Italian-Chinese Community in Prato: Insideness, Outsideness, and Cultural Complexes.
European Conference of Analytical Psychology (Trieste, Italy, August) Hidden Identity: the Italian-Chinese community in Prato
2014: JAP Conference (Berlin, May). You Won’t Be Yourself: When the Cultural Complex Denies One’s Right to Be.
2012:Media Conference, Webster University (Geneva, March) New Media, Communication and Psychological Uncertainty in the Net-Shaped Episteme.
European Conference of Analytical Psychology, St-Petersburg, Russia (September). Limit, Body and Identity. How the Thinning of the Limit has Changed the Way we Perceive Ourselves.
2011 ISAP, Zurich, (May 2011) Lecture and Seminar: In Search for the Feminine.
2010 FMPP Annual Congress of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy. 20th IFP World Congress of psychotherapy, june 16th-19th, Luzern, Switzerland 1.The N1.The neglected Feminine and the Symbols of Sublimatio; 2. Is Psychoanalysis Coming to an End?
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2009 2009 University of Lausanne, Italian Department, ‘Gi Giornate di studio sulla critica letteraria. (November) Il discorso della critica psicoanalitica.
AGAP Forum 2009. « Symptom, Symbol, Soul », Zurich. (September) The neglected feminine and symbols of sublimatio.
University of Lausanne. International Society of Critical Health Psychology. 6th Biennal Conference. (July) Is psychoanalysis coming to an end?
2008 Webster University, Geneva. (December). Seminar on dream interpretation. Co-presented with Neil German.
2007 ISAP, Zürich. (September) The net as a symbol for contemporary culture
2002-2003 Antenne Romande de l’Institut Jung de Zurich, Lausanne. 1.La maison, symbole du psychisme humain 2.Le réseau : un symbole de la culture contemporaine
Languages Italian, English, French.
Interests Spirituality, art, literature, cinema, politics and social justice, gastronomy and slow food, nature.