About

Maria Giovanna Bianchi

I started my career at the United Nations as a human rights officer, which gave me great professional and personal satisfaction. It was an opportunity to work with and meet many interesting, and some truly exceptional, people from all over the world. The interest for philosophy and psychology has remained a constant and has guided most of my readings and informal education. When I obtained my Diploma as Jungian Psychoanalyst and Psychotherapist for adults, adolescents and children, I established my private practice as a space not only to solve specific psychological issues but also to help people growing and finding meaning, starting from wherever they are in their lives. It is a place for traditional talk therapy, for sandplay therapy and there is a large playroom for therapy with children. My working experience in the fields of human rights and of psychology continue to converge in most of my academic writings and in my speaking engagements.

Experience

2021 and 2015 Psychoanalyst, Personal Development Elective program, IMD Business School, Lausanne

2020 - 2021 Cofounder of the initiative “Accogliere le ferrite di chi cura” which offers online free psychological support to medical personnel who work in the COVID-19 wards in Italy.

2019 to present Member of the Board of Directors of the C.G. Jung Foundation, Zürich

2018 to present Jungian Psychoanalyst and Psychotherapist specialized in adults, adolescents and children

2014 to 2017 Jungian Psychoanalyst and Psychotherapist in training

1996 to present Human Rights Officer, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, United Nations

Professional affiliations

IAAP, International Association of Analytical Psychology

ASP, Association of Swiss Psychotherapists

Accredited Analyst, C.G. Jung Institute, Zürich

Education

2018 Diploma Jungian Psychoanalyst and Psychotherapist, C. G. Jung Institute, Zürich

1991 – 1995 Ph.D. International Relations, Padova University

1991 – 1985 Masters International Relations, Bologna University

Training

2021 Training in supervision, C.G. Jung Institute, Zürich

2020 Embodied Imagination

2016 Internship in the private practice

2014 Internship at the Cantonal University Hospital of Geneva (HUG) within the Emergency Psychiatric Unit

2011 MBSR, Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction

Speaking engagements

2021 Human Rights and Analytical Psychology, Antenne Romande C.G. Jung Institute, Geneva

2019-2021 Exile et métamorphose: une expérience archétypale, Lectrice pour la Formation postgraduée en Psychothérapie

2019 Il potere curativo della giustizia: un’esplorazione dei rapporti tra psicologia analitica e diritti umani,

Inauguration Academic Year Associazione Italiana Psicologia Analitica, Rome

2018 Droits de l’homme et psychologie analytique, Antenne Romande C. G. Jung Institute, Geneva, Switzerland

The Trans-disciplinary State between Human Rights and Analytical Psychology, IAAP/IAJS Conference on Indeterminate States: trans-cultural, trans-racial, trans-gender, Frankfurt

Exilés, refugiés, demandeurs d’asile, immigrés, Les exils: entre espoir et mort, deuil et résurrection,StillPoint, Paris

2017 Can psychology and psychanalysis engage for human rights in today’s society ? with Monica Luci, StillPoint, Paris

2016 Human Rights and Analytical Psychology, Der Versuch, StillPoint, Berlin

Human Rights and Analytical Psychology, The Mediterranean: from Myth to Reality 2nd Circeo Encounter, Rome

Publications

2020 “The Healing Power of Justice: and Exploration of the Relationship between Analytical Psychology and Human Rights”, Studi Junghiani, Luglio-Dicembre 2020, pp. 38-52, Bologna: Franco Angeli

2012 “The Committee on Enforced Disappearances: Challenges ahead”, Diritto Internazionale, 2012, Bologna: Franco Angeli