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Johanna Murphy

Johanna Murphy, Ph.D. is a licensed psychologist in private practice in Berkeley, with 25 years of clinical experience and training in psychodynamic psychotherapy. Dr. Murphy currently works with individuals and couples, specializing in the areas of depression and anxiety, life transition,loss and grieving, women’s health and spirituality and creativity. Dr. Murphy particularly enjoys working with young adults, couples, and artists.

You can’t live at the carnival

My family all knew how to leave.but going back –where the mess is all too real, that was too jangling for them. There has never been a back to go to, you sai...

Johanna Murphy

Interwoven Peaces

When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people… to fulfill the promise of being one people, necessary to abolish any government that ...

Lisa Koshkarian, Johanna Murphy

Depths and Heights

I could see the bears in the sky;and knew we were their puppets.Three of them in deep angled armchairs, warm glow of lowlights.Jolly and illuminated– they�...

Johanna Murphy

Critica is an inclusive and transdisciplinary publishing platform that focuses on offering a reflective and aesthetic space to consider social and cultural issues through a psychoanalytic and creative lens. It is also a forum for ideas at the intersection of psychoanalysis, creativity, philosophy, and the social sciences.

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