Felipe Muller, Ph.D.

My approach centers on exploring the unconscious dimensions of psychic life—including unconscious desires, fantasies, conflicts, and defenses—that shape patients' subjective experience and may be generating suffering. Through ongoing analytic dialogue, we work together to understand how these unconscious processes manifest in symptoms, relational patterns, and inhibitions that constrain emotional life and daily functioning. A central aim of the analytic work is to recognize how these underlying psychic tensions interfere with one's capacity for pleasure, intimacy, productive work, and creative engagement with the world. Some difficulties stem from intrapsychic conflicts, while others arise within the relational field or from external circumstances. Both dimensions are explored with sustained attention throughout the treatment. The analytic process involves careful listening to the patient's associations, attending to transference and resistance, recognizing repetitive unconscious patterns that perpetuate psychic distress, and working through the defenses and inhibitions that restrict psychic freedom and vitality.

Private Practice in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. Since 1996. Psychoanalyst. Asociación Psicoanalítica Argentina (Argentine Psychoanalytic Association, A.P.A.). Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2013. Psychotherapist. Western Queen Consultation Center, Queens, New York, U.S.A.1999-2000. Clinical Externship, Instituto de Investigaciones Médicas Alfredo Lanari, School of Medicine, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina. 1996-1998.

I am a certified psychoanalyst with the Asociación Psicoanalítica Argentina (A.P.A.) in Buenos Aires, a credential I achieved in 2013 (starting in 2007). I am a member of the International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA) and Federation of Psychoanalytic Societies of Latin America (FEPAL). I hold a Ph.D. in Psychology from the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research in New York, earned in 2006. Prior to that, I completed my M.A. in Psychology at the same institution in 2001. My foundational training includes a Licenciatura en Psicología (Degree in Psychology with a Clinical Orientation) from Universidad de Belgrano in Buenos Aires, Argentina, awarded in 1995. I completed my secondary education at Belgrano Day School, Buenos Aires, in 1987.