Merle molofsky biography
Merle Heidi Molofsky is a psychoanalyst in private practice..
I am a poet, playwright, fiction writer, essayist, and psychoanalyst.
Transformational Change to Repair the World (response article)
Psychoanalysis offers the potential for transformational change, that a person’s psyche can undergo restructuring, resulting in a personal transformation.
Whatever the theoretical psychoanalytic orientation—classical drive theory, ego psychology, neo-Freudianism, object relations, self-psychology, intersubjectivity, relational psychology—the assumption is that the internal balance of aspects of the psyche will change.
These theoretical assumptions could be that conflict and undue inhibition can be dissolved, defenses that no longer are useful can be significantly lessened, social and cultural influences can be identified, self and object representations can alter, modes of conceptualizing relationships of self and others in the world can evolve because the unconscious has been made conscious, and the relation-
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ship between analyst and analysand itself has a therapeutic effect.
As the unconscious becomes cons