One to One with Melanie Starr Costello

In this episode of the podcast I am speaking with Dr Melanie Starr Costello. Amongst other things we talk about her Irish Catholic upbringing, going to India, studying Vedanta, becoming a medieval scholar, the fourteenth century Women mystics, Saint Catherine of Siena, going to Zurich, becoming a Jungian Analyst. What is a mystic? Was Jung a mystic? mystery traditions, The Orphic tradition, the Renaissance, Neoplatonism, Ficino, her work as an analyst, the divine intelligence of dreams and navigating these times.

Melanie Starr Costello, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist, historian, and Jungian analyst in private practice in Washington, D.C. She earned a doctorate in the History and Literature of Religions from Northwestern University, and a Diploma in Analytical Psychology from the C.G. Jung Institute Zürich where she currently serves as a training analyst.