Shaun Martin

I am an intern at Delaware State University completing a master’s in clinical social work. My undergraduate training is in Behavioral Science; I have an additional master’s degree in Transpersonal Psychology and Consciousness Studies. I am also training to become a Jungian Analyst under the guidance of my mentor from the Philadelphia Association of Jungian Analysts.

My primary interests lie in the origins and spiritual implications of the intensifying issues with mental health in our communities and the relevance of Carl Jung’s psychoanalytic work in this area. After graduation, I would like to move more deeply into the psychotherapeutic space via Jungian analysis, which focuses more on the integration of unconscious contents to develop personality structures, expanding perspectives to identify the messages and insights hidden in our neuroses, and moving through our most self-destructive, not to mention collectively destructive tendencies and projections. I feel there are a variety of factors contributing to the growing mental health issues in modern society starting with a general lack of meaning, cosmological context, and fulfillment amidst an acutely capitalistic and meritocratic value system that is generating an increasing alienation from nature (inner and outer) and a perpetual overemphasis on curating a superficial persona that can at times falsify our most intimate relationship with ourselves and our relationships with others, all to navigate our complex society.

I’m looking forward to working with those of you who resonate with this therapeutic style and want to live in deeper alignment with yourself while building a healthier and more meaningful life.