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...
by Dr. Gary Morse | May 29, 2024 | Articles, Burnout, Happiness/Well-Being, Mental Health, Overcoming Burnout
Learn in this fifth post in the Overcoming Burnout series how to rediscover a sense of meaning in your work to improve your well-being and stress hardiness. A personal sense of meaning is one of the most important attitudes we can possess. Meaning can help...
by Dr. Gary Morse | Dec 18, 2023 | Articles, Homelessness, Mental Health
If you Google search “Longest Night” and are persistent enough, making your way past sites like a Netflix series about armed invaders trying to abduct a serial killer from a psychiatric prison, past a novel about a nuclear accident, past sites about a video game and...
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