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 | 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 | Dec 15, 2023 | Articles, Homelessness, Mental Health, Social-Political Issues
The University of California-San Francisco (UCSF) completed data collection in late 2022 in one of the largest studies conducted on homelessness in decades. The findings, released the following year, are important for public policy on health, housing, and...
by Dr. Gary Morse | Nov 3, 2023 | Articles, Happiness/Well-Being, Social-Political Issues
When my wife and I traveled recently through Germany, we were surprised that our most powerful experiences came from something other than the country’s iconic tourist attractions. Certainly, the traditional sites—the scenic Rhine River guarded by 12th Century castles,...
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