A Little Bit About Me

Dr. Wanyoung Kim-Murphy (also published under the name "Wanyoung Kim") is a clinical psychoanalytic psychotherapist, applied researcher, and philosopher, whose work explores consciousness, subjectivity, and human experience. An American of South Korean noble descent based in the United Kingdom, she is trained in both philosophy and psychology. She holds a PhD in Philosophy from the European Graduate School, an MA in Philosophy from The New School for Social Research, and an MSc in Psychology from Capella University, all earned with honours or high distinction.

Her work as an accredited psychoanalytic psychotherapist, life coach, and spiritual director combines Freudo-Lacanian psychoanalysis with informational dynamic field theory, existential, phenomenological, and philosophical therapy, and contemplative methods drawing from Early Buddhism and Mahayana (including Tibetan and Zen Buddhism), as well as Catholic theology, offering a space of transformative healing and self-understanding for every patient.

Dr. Kim has edited books for Palgrave, Cambridge, and Bloomsbury publishing houses. She is also a multilingual certified translator, with a forthcoming translation of Jean Baruzi's 'St. John of the Cross and the Problem of Mystical Experience' in 2026, and published English translations of Alain Badiou's Nietzsche Seminar I, 1992-1993, and philosophical essays by Gilles Deleuze and Maurice Blanchot. Her translation of 'St. John of the Cross and the Problem of Mystical Experience' will be released in early 2026, completed as a post-doctoral research project over two years. Her PhD dissertation monograph, 'Cosmophenomenology: The Alterity and Harmony of Consciousness' (2019), proposed an early framework for a physicalist yet post-materialist understanding of consciousness, anticipating directions now explored in theoretical physics and cognitive science.

Dr. Kim traces her paternal lineage to the noble Gyeongju Kim clan of the Silla Dynasty, and her maternal lineage from the aristocratic Haman clan of the Joseon Dynasty, but lived in the United States of America for most of her life, until moving to England.