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.

“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

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.