Alessandra di Montezemolo

alessandra di montezemolo

Individual analysis and therapy, Supervision, Group Explorations | Available In Paris and online

Clinical Psychologist and Psychoanalyst -Training Analyst and Supervisor, CG Jung Institute Zurich

Member of the International Association for Analytical Psychology (IAAP)

about

Italian citizen, but born in Madrid, I lived in six different countries and I speak fluently English, French, Spanish, and Italian. After graduating in clinical psychology in Rome I continued my studies with a Freudian training, and later, became a Jungian analyst in Zurich. Besides psychoanalysis, I have many years of experience in global companies and acquired deep insights into corporate life and its conflicts.

In the 80s, I participated in a two-year, clinical research for the Italian Ministry of Health, focusing on the psychological relevance of play for hospitalized children. From September 2017 until December 2023, I created and developed Stillpoint Spaces Paris, exploring psychology in-depth, inside and outside the consulting room, valuing the importance of the unconscious and the collective unconscious within our contemporary society.

ithaca

”As you set out on the way to Ithaca hope that the road is a long one, filled with adventures, filled with understanding. The Laestrygonians and the Cyclopes, Poseidon in his anger: do not fear them, you’ll never come across them on your way as long as your mind stays aloft, and a choice emotion touches your spirit and your body. The Laestrygonians and the Cyclopes, savage Poseidon; you’ll not encounter them unless you carry them within your soul, unless your soul sets them up before you.

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Hope that the road is a long one. Many may the summer mornings be when—with what pleasure, with what joy— you first put in to harbors new to your eyes; may you stop at Phoenician trading posts and there acquire fine goods: mother-of-pearl and coral, amber and ebony, and heady perfumes of every kind: as many heady perfumes as you can. To many Egyptian cities may you go so you may learn, and go on learning, from their sages. Always keep Ithaca in your mind; to reach her is your destiny. But do not rush your journey in the least. Better that it last for many years; that you drop anchor at the island an old man, rich with all you’ve gotten on the way, not expecting Ithaca to make you rich. Ithaca gave to you the beautiful journey; without her you’d not have set upon the road. But she has nothing left to give you anymore. And if you find her poor, Ithaca did not deceive you. As wise as you’ll have become, with so much experience, you’ll have understood, by then, what these Ithacas mean.”

Kostantin Kavafis
Translated by Daniel Mendelsohn

practice

With a background of multiple years in both Freudian and Jungian psychoanalysis, in addition to extensive experience in global business, I try to provide a unique perspective to the analytical process. My clinical experience, coupled with a multicultural approach, facilitates the personal analytical journey, as well as supervision work, and enables psychological explorations in groups. Always within a protected and safe container.

analytical experience

Each human being is unique and therefore the analytical experience is always different, and specific for each person. It is the search for a sense of authentic self-integrity and of one’s own purpose in life (what C.G. Jung calls the “individuation process”) that guides the analytical relationship.

supervision

Individual and Group Supervision of an analytical process requires having a deep respect for the unique relationship between the analyst and his analysand. The analysand himself is not with us in the session, and therefore supervision is about what the analyst brings about the relationship with his/her analysand

group explorations

We live in very troubled and difficult times. We are often left on or own, exposed to overwhelming undifferentiated information and images and we can feel a sense of disorientation, helplessness, hopelessness.. What we offer is a protected virtual space, to explore openly, but safely and together, some of the most difficult issues and emotions we are facing collectively.

quotes

"The gigantic catastrophes that threaten us today are not elemental happenings of a physical or biological order, but psychic events. To a quite terrifying degree we are threatened by wars and revolutions which are nothing other than psychic epidemics. At any moment several million human beings may be smitten with a new madness, and then we shall have another world war or devastating revolution. Instead of being at the mercy of wild beasts, earthquakes, landslides, and inundations, modern man is battered by the elemental forces of his own psyche". (1932)

"Awakening the imagining, sensing heart would move psychology itself from mental reflection toward cordial reflex. Psychology may then become again Florentine, for the move southward that I have been urging these last twenty years – from the clinics of Zurich and Vienna, from the white laboratories and black forests of Germany, from the positivist and empiricist dissections of Britain and America, to say nothing of the gymnastics of the tongue in France – cannot be accomplished without moving as well the seat of the soul from brain to heart and the method of psychology from cognitive understanding to aesthetic sensitivity. With the heart we move at once into imagination”

"To some extent, in its historical, evolutionary terms, consciousness was a forbidden fruit that once eaten made one vulnerable to pain and suffering and ultimately exposed to a tragic confrontation with death. This perspective is closely compatible with the idea that consciousness is introduced in evolution by the hand of feelings and not just any feelings but negative ones, in particular."