Erminia Scarcella, M.D., DLFAPA

Erminia Scarcella, M.D., DLFAPA, is a physician specialized in Neurology and Psychiatry in Italy and then she moved to US and became Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis in the U.S. She is Assistant Clinical Professor at George Washington University. School of Medicine. She has been working as attending physician at Veteran Administration Hospital (VAH) 1985-1990 and at the psychiatric inpatient unit at Walter Reed Army Medical Center (WRAMC) 1990- 1995. She has been involved with Jung Analytic Psychology from 1964 to present and she has been President of JSW [Jung Society of Washington DC] for 20 years:1999-2019. She has been Medical Director of ALHS 2015-2021, a mental health clinic in Washington DC. She has been in private practice since 1990 to present.

She is the Designated Physician of the Embassy of Italy, Designated Physician of the airline Company ALITALIA 2018-2021, and ITA Airline 2023 to present at IAD. Former Chair of the International Medical Graduated [IMG] and Founder of Embassy Disaster Preparedness of the WPS (Washington Psychiatry Society) 2002 to present.

Her clinical work as a psychiatrist is intertwined with the theoretical framework of Jung’s Analytic Psychology and the basic Freudian theory.

She has served in the Army Reserves Medical Corps, where she retired with the rank of Major. She has been a Rotary member of the International Rotary Club of

Washington, DC, from 2005 to present She was honored to be a KNIGHT of the Republic of Italy, 2014

Dr Scarcella has been always involved in a deep analysis of the unconscious where the roots of the psychic wounds are hidden and alive, generating painful reaction.