by Glenn Berger PhD | Oct 30, 2018 | Wisdom
October 11, 2018 marked the thirtieth anniversary of the day I was arrested. By 1988, AIDS diagnoses in the U.S. approached 100,000 and communities were devastated. The Republican government’s ignoring of the growing crisis led to the formation of Act Up, the direct...
by Glenn Berger PhD | Feb 2, 2018 | Popular
In the film, Groundhog Day, the lead character, played with perfect disaffected snarkiness by Bill Murray, gets trapped living a single day over and over again. Every day is Groundhog Day; a cold, gray, mediocre one in Puxatawney, Pennsylvania. Each day, Murray steps...
by Glenn Berger PhD | Jan 26, 2018 | Popular
The next quality that is central to the Mencian conception of heart is ch’i. (For those of you who are just joining this conversation, Mencius was a great Chinese Sage who lived and wrote 2300 years ago. Central to his philosophy was the notion of “heart.”...
by Glenn Berger PhD | Jan 24, 2018 | Uncategorized
Victor Frankl, one of the great existential psychotherapists of the 20th century and a profound human being, was a concentration-camp survivor. An author of dozens of books, his most renowned is Man’s Search for Meaning. He captures the sum of my philosophy and...
by Glenn Berger PhD | Jan 24, 2018 | Popular
Many years ago, when I was searching for the answer to life, I thought I’d find it by going to the end of the world. That was the instruction I found in all the stories. You climbed the mountain, found the guy with the long beard, and he’d give you the secret. You’d...
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