by Dr. Gary Morse | May 17, 2026 | Articles, Happiness/Well-Being
[Note: This is Gary’s Commencement Address to the College of Arts and Sciences at University of Missouri-St. Louis, delivered May 13, 2023] Thank you, Chancellor Sobolik, Provost Berberich, Dean Grady, and Dean Munn Sanchez for today’s invitation. My graduate...
by Dr. Gary Morse | May 8, 2026 | Articles, Happiness/Well-Being, Mental Health, Social-Political Issues
In 2016 a woman I was seeing for psychotherapy after the tragic death of her child deviated from our conversation about trauma, loss, and healing to say she had to leave the room at home whenever Donald Trump came on the TV. Watching and listening to him, she said,...
by Dr. Gary Morse | Jan 30, 2026 | Mental Health, Psychology, Social-Political Issues
Philip Zimbardo could have told us in advance that the ICE operations were going to turn out very badly. Images and reports coming out of Minnesota—a woman protestor shot in the head, a peaceful protestor gang tackled and then shot multiple times in the back, young...
by Dr. Gary Morse | Sep 16, 2025 | Homelessness, Mental Health, Social-Political Issues, Uncategorized
In a week rife with trauma and tragedy, the Fox and Friends news host Brian Kilmeade displayed both a lack of knowledge and an incredible void of compassion when he recommended “involuntary lethal injection” for people who are homeless and mentally ill and who turn...
by Dr. Gary Morse | Jul 3, 2025 | Articles, Burnout, Mental Health
Saving the life of another person is one of the most heroic acts. Frequently we hear news about the heroism of first responders—police, firemen, paramedics—who respond to a 911 call and save a person during a life-threatening emergency. Their work is critical to...
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