As one of God’s children, I often reflect that if his son, Jesus could walk the face of this earth experiencing much pain, torture, and sufferings for us all, then who am I to complain?
From the author’s personal stories, lifespan experiences, and profession comes this psychological and spiritual autobiographical and familial traumatic journey from slavery to the 21st Century to recovery.

Included in his book are myriad clinical information that he amassed while attending the University of Michigan’s Honors Program in Psychology and Sociology (double major), Harvard University’s Continuing Education in Psychology, Lesley University Counseling and Psychology Program, The Trauma Center on 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.

The author provides a lifespan developmental history of how trauma is presented in the “DSM-IV-TR, as well as the theoretical frameworks of Bowlby, Jung, Miller, Adler, and Rogers.  He explains the impact of these theorists when looking at trauma from each of their perspectives.  Further, shows the analogous connections between his theory of ©Spiritual Injuries and Battered Women’s Syndrome (BWS)

It is about Spiritual Injuries ©2009, and how spiritual injuries can or may affect the spiritual growth of a developing child amid myriad social and psychological developments along the schema of ordinary lifecycle developmental stages.  John Roland witnessed the breaking of horses as a young child aged four or five on his family homestead property in the segregated south-southwest of rural Texarkana, Texas.  John Roland (he was always addressed by family members and close friends this way), the author of this book, often watched his father, uncles and their friends plow the land, tilling the soil in the back of their home for planting vegetables.  John Roland asked several adults who would listen, often making a pest of himself, what it meant if a horse was broken.  He kept getting the same answers, mostly that the spirit of the horses had been broken.  After persistent questioning, Uncle Do explained that breaking horses was a way of getting them to do what you want them to do, to make them do your bidding, to make them conform, whether they liked it or not.  By doing this to them, Uncle Doc said, “your break their will and sense of self-direction.”  As result they depend on you for direction and sustenance, their livelihood, their very existence!  Uncle Doc also said that once horses were broken, they were broken for life; their spiritual life had been taken from them.  Analogously perpetrators who batter women are attempting to break the spirit of women, as in the clinical definition of Battered Women’s Syndrome.