Daniela Ripetti-Pacchini is an Italian poet, writer, psychologist, and psychotherapist.
She was born in Pisa and from the end of Sixties to 1987 she has lived mainly in Rome.
She was born in Pisa and from the end of Sixties to 1987 she has lived mainly in Rome.
Her poems have appeared in Italian literary
reviews, journals, anthologies and books such as "Nuovi Argomenti",
"Guida Poetica Italiana", "ClanDestino", "Quinta Generazione", Poeti Italiani al 2° Festival
Internazionale dei Poeti, Letteratura degli Anni Ottanta. Scrittori
nelle Scuole, La poesia nel Lazio and in Il Romanzo di Castelporziano, etc.
In 1982-83, Vallerini publisher
published a miscellany of her verse entitled Dei Trapassati
Intendimenti with a preface by Alberto Moravia. This book includes
poems read and performed by Daniela Ripetti, in three International Festivals
of the Poets and in three Concerts of Poetry, during the Seventies and in 1981. In 1985, the International Journal of Contemporary Writings "The Literary Review" (USA) and the cultural Mexican
review "Altiplano", translated and published some of her poems.
In 1992, Editrice Forum/ Quinta Generazione, published a new collection of her verses
called
Marcia della prudenza 1981.
In 2019 a new book of her Una giovinezza rubata-Memorie di Guerra Fredda, was published by Books & Company and in 2021 EdiPsy has published a new vast miscellany of her poems, in Italian and in English, entitled La Poesia e il suo Doppio (The Poetry and its Double).
A new collection of her poems Poesia-Phoenix has been published on December 2022 by Transeuropa publisher.
A freelance journalist, Daniela Ripetti wrote for various Italian
magazines and newspapers.
In the past she appeared as an
actress, especially stage actress, in Carmelo Bene's Romeo &
Juliet and as an author, actress and director, in several theatre events.
(Beat 72, Tenda-poesia, Theatre San Ferdinando of Naples, etc.). Members of the Living
Theatre often took part in the performances staged by her 'Theatre of
the Impossible'.
As a psychologist and psychotherapist her interest has centered on the
phenomenology of consciousness in its many transformations (altered and/or
alternative states of consciousness, peak experiences, hypnosis etc.), mass
psychology, psychopolitics and the various self-regulation techniques to access, facilitate and
regulate psychobiological processes and transitions.
She has worked as a
psychotherapist using Ericksonian and systemic approaches and as consultant
psychologist and Mental Trainer for the Italian National Olympic Committee
(CONI), FIDAL and FITARCO. She has given lectures, seminars and workshops on Sport Psychology and on advanced self-regulation and hypnotic strategies.
https://independent.academia.edu/DanielaRipettiPacchini
For many years Daniela Ripetti has lived in Pisa because of some serious health problems which have increasingly prevented her from working.
https://independent.academia.edu/DanielaRipettiPacchini
For many years Daniela Ripetti has lived in Pisa because of some serious health problems which have increasingly prevented her from working.
Several times, in her absence,
her poems were read by other actresses and actors (Maria Luisa Bene, Luigi
Mezzanotte, Giuliana Adezio, Giovannella De Luca, etc.)
In 2010 at the International
Meeting of Poetry (Festival Mediterranea), they were read by Cloris Brosca and Giovannella De Luca.
Since 2011 she has published some of her video-poetry on her twoYouTube
channels:
“skindapsos” https://www.youtube.com/user/skindapsos
and “ilvelobarocco” https://www.youtube.com/user/ilvelobarocco
See also her blog: https://danielaripettipacchini.blogspot.com/
