Melanie Starr Costello, PhD
Licensed Clinical Psychologist
Jungian Analyst
Jungian Analyst
Psychotherapy for Adults
Jungian Analysis
Lectures and Workshops
"Individuation means becoming an 'in-dividual,' and, in so far as 'individuality' embraces our innermost,
last, and incomparable uniqueness, it also implies becoming one’s own self. We could therefore translate individuation as
'coming to selfhood' or 'self-realization'...it is a process by which [one] becomes the definite, unique being [that one] in fact is.”
C. G. Jung, Vol. 7, 266-268
last, and incomparable uniqueness, it also implies becoming one’s own self. We could therefore translate individuation as
'coming to selfhood' or 'self-realization'...it is a process by which [one] becomes the definite, unique being [that one] in fact is.”
C. G. Jung, Vol. 7, 266-268
Melanie Starr Costello, PhD is a licensed psychologist, historian, and Zurich-trained Jungian analyst in private practice in Washington, D.C. since 1999. She earned her doctorate in the History and Literature of Religions from Northwestern University. A former Assistant Professor of History at St. Mary's College of Maryland, Dr. Costello has taught and published on the topics of psychology and religion, medieval spirituality, aging and spirituality, and image making in clinical practice. Her study of the link between illness, insight and image entitled, Imagination, Illness and Injury: Jungian Psychology and the Somatic Dimensions of Perception, is published by Routledge press.
Dr. Costello has served on the Board of the C.G. Jung Foundation of New York, as the Director of Education for the Jungian Analysts of Washington Association, and as Trustee for the Consortium for Psychoanalytic Research in Washington, DC.
1700 17th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20009
301-928-9333
drmscostello@gmail.com
Dr. Costello has served on the Board of the C.G. Jung Foundation of New York, as the Director of Education for the Jungian Analysts of Washington Association, and as Trustee for the Consortium for Psychoanalytic Research in Washington, DC.
1700 17th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20009
301-928-9333
drmscostello@gmail.com
"As the ancients knew so well, healing, above all, means 'becoming whole', and that involves gaining insight into one's hidden self, accepting what has been, and setting one's intention to take up possibilities that have yet to be lived." |
As the ancients knew so well, healing, above all, means 'becoming whole', and that involves gaining insight into one's hidden self, accepting what has been, and setting one's intention to take up possibilities that have yet to be lived.
A Jungian analysis promotes healing and life-changing awareness through creative exploration of the individual’s inner world. In cultivating a relation to spontaneous products of the unconscious, the experience of the self, other, and world deepens. Life choices form along the lines of meaning, and one aims beyond mere adaptation to life’s demands toward an experience of psychological balance and wholeness. |