Michael J. Murphy, Ed.D., DFP
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Personal
When your name is Michael Murphy - the John Smith
of Ireland - one of the first things you have to do is to differentiate
yourself from all of the other Michael Murphy's out there.
I am not the Michael Murphy who is the
well-known Hollywood character
 actor. I am not the Michael Murphy who
used to play wing for the New York Islanders. I am not the Michael Murphy who,
so many years ago, sang "Wildfire" - though, truth be known, he threw a an "e"
onto the end of his name (Murphey) to differentiate himself from the rest of us
- I am not the Michael Murphy who founded the California human potential center
Esalen. I am not any of those Michael Murphy's, and there are a whole lot of
other Michael Murphy's that I am not. I am the Michael Murphy who graduated from
Holy Cross College with a degree in philosophy, got a doctoral degree in
Counseling and Marriage and Family Therapy at Texas A&M University at
Commerce, worked for 1  0 years as a director of a
mental health center in Western Massachusetts, completed post-doctoral training
programs in forensic psychology and neuropsychology, published in the
million-selling book Chicken Soup for the Soul and then my own book Tales of
Fathering, wrote newspaper columns for many years for the Bennington Banner and
the Patriot Ledger, completed years of experience and training as a sex
offender evaluator, worked for many years as a provider and supervisor of
prison mental health services, completed many hundreds of court-related
forensic mental health evaluations at various hospitals and secure
institutions, and experienced some of the mild, and not
so mild, forms of personal turmoil described in some of the essays available
through
my
blog. I urge you to read, respond, and
contact me if there is a reason to do so.
Fredrich Neitzsche described psychology as the god-science, though it has often
been reduced to much more mundane purposes. As we continue on our journey
wherever we are going, we can do no better than to investigate.
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