DR. GILLISPIE has over forty-five years in the field of mental health as a practitioner, administrator, consultant and program designer. He is currently part owner and CEO of a private mental health practice specializing in Marriage/Family Counseling and Cognitive/Affective Disorders. As a Psychotherapist, Dr. Gillispie has seen an array of patients with a multitude of problems and disorders. His therapeutic framework is primarily cognitive therapy. He emphasize in order to overcome emotional despair, the person must change the way they are thinking. As a Christian, Dr. Gillispie focus on the correlation between theology and psychology. This book provide the content of how both work together to overcome emotional difficulties. He stress the difference from emotional hurt and emotional harm. This book provide a journey on how to heal from emotional hurt and not to be destroyed by emotional harm. His conceptualization is the power of the mind over the destruction's presented by the world we live in, past and present. He has presented several mental health topics to include the following: - Techniques in the Provision of Group Psychotherapy Clinical and Therapeutic Dynamics in the Facilitation of Group Psychotherapy - Cognitive Behavioral Therapy - Efficacy of Mental Health Services in Corrections - Mental Health Treatment for Segregated Offender - Social Work Standards of Practice in Psychiatric Hospitals - Stress Management Workshops - Treatment for Intensive Outpatient Senior Citizens - Barriers for African Americans in Obtaining Mental Health Services in the Rural South He has co-authored the following publications: - Hospitalized Africa American Men with Mental Illness: Some Antecedents to Service Satisfaction and - Intent to Comply with Aftercare. Psychiatric Rehabilitation Skills, Volume 6, Number 3, winter 2002. - Hospitalized African American Mental Health Consumers: Some Antecedents to Service Satisfaction and Intent to Comply with Aftercare. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, Volume 75, Number 2, pp. 254- 261, 2005.