Biography
About Dr. Jerry
Jerry A. Morris, Jr, PsyD, MsPharm, MBA, ABMP, ABPP, ABBHP, NCSP, CCM
Dr. Jerry Morris has a doctoral degree in clinical psychology, a master’s degree in psychology, a bachelor’s degree in psychology with a minor in sociology, a post doctoral graduate degree in clinical psychopharmacology, and an MBA in Management.
He has had a long career of service in national and state psychological associations and communities and patients, developed and operated and managed hospitals and hospital clinical programs and medical/surgical hospitals, and primary care centers.
He has served on the Council of Representatives and Finance Committee and as the chair of the Hospital and Healthcare Facilities for the largest clinical division in the American Psychological Association (APA), on the Level I and II Task Force on Clinical Psychopharmacology for the APA, and as the Missouri Psychological Association President and Board Member for 8 years. He served on the national psychology practitioner’s association (National Alliance of Professional Psychology Providers, www.nappp.org) board for over 10 years. He is a Past President, and Board Member Emeritus and past Executive Director of NAPPP, and Past President of the American Academy of Medical Psychology and American Board of Medical Psychology. He has served on the American Board of Couples and Family Psychology (ABPP) and he is board certified in that specialty and discipline. Dr. Morris has been the director of psychology doctoral internships, post doctoral psychology residencies, has been faculty on a doctoral program in clinical psychology, and he has published widely in professional books, journals, and trade magazines. He served on the Missouri Marital and Family Association Board.
Dr. Morris is licensed in Kansas and Missouri, and was previously licensed in Louisiana.
Dr. Morris was on the Clinton Health Policy 500 Council of Doctors and was one of three doctors who edited the report for the library of congress. Dr. Morris helped author the psychology licensure statute for Missouri with attorney Dan Card, JD, author of Appellate Procedure Books for Missouri. Dr. Morris was a friend of Sen. Harold Caskey, one of the most renowned legislators and advocates of fairness, humanism, and honest Government in MO, and his wife Kay Caskey. Dr. Morris friends, James Bray, PhD, Ron Fox, Ph.D, Stanley Graham, Ph.D, Nick Cummings, PhD, Sc.D, Bob Resnick, Ph.D, Jack Wiggins, Ph.D were Presidents of the American Psychological Association and the national practitioner association (nappp.org), and he served on boards and committiees and task forces with them. His close friends and fellow past board associates and national organizations co-leaders John Caccavale, Ph.D, ABMP, Ward Lawson, Ph.D, ABMP, Jeff Cole, Ph.D, ABMP, Howard Rubin, Ph.D, ABPP, Brian Bigelow, Ph.D, ABMP Susan Barngrover, Ph.D., ABMP, Keith Petrosky, Ph.D., ABMP, Cal Robinson, Psy.D., ABMP, Paul Craig, Ph.D, ABPP, Richard Cox, Ph.D., Betty Cox, Ph.D, Michael Enright, Ph.D, ABPP, Allan Enright, Ph.D, ABPP, all leaders, seminal practitioners and leaders in the Practitioner Movement in American Psychology, and especially Clinical Psychology and Elite Diagnoses and Psychotherapy. These leaders were essential in the Practitioner Movement in Psychology in America and were respected and good friends and contributors of many boards, standards, publications, and national psychological efforts. They changed the practice of psychology in America.
See: www.apa.org, www.academyofmedicalpsychology.com, www.abbhp.org, www.drjerrymorris.com, and see www.lifestylefacts.org for Dr. Morris’ review by invitation of ADHD facts, myths, poor performance of medications, and interviews and blog. Don’t miss the TruthinDrugs Campaign that started a revision in how Americal thinks about medication only approaches to mental illness developed by NAPPP and Dr. Morris and many of the seminal figures abouve (https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/national-association-of-professional-psychology-providers-launches-truth-in-drugs-campaign-114569614.html), See: https://academyofmedicalpsychology.com/books/ For a Recent Major Publication from the Practice Movement Leaders in Psychology: 
Contact: cmhc.nmh.jmorris@gmail.com
Recent Publications: Archives of Medical Psychology, Vol13Issue1, Feb 2023, The Challenge of Medical Psychology in a Divided Society
Dominated by Delusional Thinking. By: Jerry Morris & John Caccavale.
Archives of Medical Psychology, Vol13Issue1, Feb 2023, Exaggerated Marketing, Unethical and Unscientific Practice, and the
Limitations of Psychopharmacotherapy and Pooping Out in Medical Practice
Jerry Morris.
Citations and Article Retrievals: https://academyofmedicalpsychology.com/publications/
Dr. Morris latest publication: April 2023Vol 14, Issue 1, 2024, Regressive and Paranoid Trends in the Fractionated North American Culture: What the Treating Medical Psychologist Must Be Prepared to Treat. (see: archivesofmedicalpsychology.com). (direct link: X )
Practice Locations: Dr. Morris recently retired but maintains a caseload of depth psychotherapy patients, and occaisionally accepts a particularly interesting long-term therapy case from respected colleagues..
Notice: If you are a PLPC, provisionally licensed marital and family therapist, addicted individual with two years of established sobriety who wants Dr. Morris to help you get a licensure residency and work and employment, supervision toward credentialing, and mentoring; please contact Dr. Morris for Mentoring and Consultation. I can help you get employment, supervision, and learning.