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 | 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...
by Dr. Gary Morse | Jun 21, 2025 | Articles, Homelessness
Multiple articles, including a recent web post summary (see June 17, 20225 at 12:28 a.m.) describe the late Robin Williams’ interactions with people who are homeless. The comedian and actor—rich, famous, incredibly funny—frequently reached out on his own time to...
by Dr. Gary Morse | Dec 11, 2024 | Articles, Homelessness, Social-Political Issues
A mother in Anne Berest’s best-selling novel The Postcard is recounting for her daughter the story of her own mother’s family in France in the late 1930s and early 1940s. One child escaped but the rest were rounded up by the collaborating French government...
by Dr. Gary Morse | Aug 29, 2024 | Articles, Burnout, Happiness/Well-Being, Overcoming Burnout
A final step in learning to beat burnout is to create your own personal plan, as this twelfth post in the Overcoming Burnout Series describes. By this point, you have gained considerable knowledge from prior posts and your own experience about burnout and—most...
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