A Personal, Spiritual, and Psychological

Journey to Recovery

The author’s personal, academic, and professional life serves as a backdrop for his discussion on trauma

Ann Arbor, MI – November 9, 2009 – From his personal stories, experiences, and profession comes this spiritual and autobiographical journey from slavery to the twenty-first century and from family trauma to recovery.  Author and psychologist John Roland High shares his life and work in this revealing, honest, and stimulating read. Through Spiritual Injuries, Assaults on the Soul, he interweaves some of the theories related to post-traumatic stress disorder and dissociative identity disorder with narratives from his personal and family life.

 In Spiritual Injuries, Assaults on the Soul, the author has impressively captured the theoretical information related to trauma while entertaining readers with stories of incidents and historical events that happened to him, to members of his family, and to other African-Americans.  His academic, professional, and personal life experiences have become a backdrop for his discussions on trauma.

 “He is to be commended for his effort writing this book in which he provides his insight, empathy, knowledge and genuinely shares of himself.  John has done an impressive amount of work on his first endeavor into writing and publishing on trauma.” – Dyanne P. London, PhD, Lesley University, Cambridge, MA

 Also included in this book are clinical information that he gathered while attending the University of Michigan's Honors Program in Psychology, Harvard University's Continuing Education in Psychology, Lesley University Counseling and Psychology Program, The Trauma Center of Boston University Medical Center, and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.  This clinical information on everything were related to trauma, and case studies of various anonymous patients and trauma victims he saw over the years.  He provides a developmental history of how trauma is presented in the "DSM-IV-R" as well as the theories of Bowlby, Jung, Adler, and Rogers; he explains the impact of these theorists when looking at trauma from each of their perspectives.

 Spiritual Injuries, Assaults on the Soul shows how an exploration of self necessarily involves reflecting on one’s inner life and one’s life experiences.  By writing this book, the author has realized that he has become an instrument of change.  For more information on this book, log on to www.Xlibris.com.

 About the Author

John Roland High completed an internship at the trauma center of Boston Medical Center while attending Lesley University’s graduate program in counseling psychology.  He is very knowledgeable about trauma, the assessment, diagnostic differential, and treatment.  He has spent the majority of his professional life involved in all areas of this issue in children, adolescents, and adults.  Not only does he write about all areas of trauma but he also looks at it via “spiritual injuries and assaults to the soul.”  During his graduate course on Clinical Practice and Supervision at Lesley University, he was known as the trauma therapist because every case he presented in his training days was trauma-focused.  He read everything he could on trauma, PTSD, and anything related to evaluation, differential diagnosis, and doing treatment.

 Spiritual Injuries, Assaults on the Soul * by John Roland High

My Journey Through Childhood and Family Trauma to Recovery

Publication Date: November 2, 2009

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