Michael Murphy’s search for meaning

Broadcaster and psychoanalyst, Michael Murphy, will bring his evening of reflection: ‘Stories, Poetry and Dreams to the Triskel, Christchurch next week and ahead of the event, Colette Sheridan talks to him about his work, his books and his outlo.

BROADCASTER, psychoanalyst and writer, Michael Murphy, says that his prostate cancer, which was diagnosed in 2007, can partly be explained by “emotional wounds”.

Growing up in Castlebar, Co Mayo, he was beaten by his late father, such that at the age of three and a half, Michael gathered his pyjamas and moved into his grandmother’s home next door.