Sacred Sons: A Healing Blueprint for Black Masculinities
Edition: 1
Copyright: 2026
Pages: 200
Edition: 1
Copyright: 2026
Pages: 200
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Black males are more than the stereotypes projected onto them. Sacred Sons names the damage of gendered racism, problematization, and conceptual incarceration and then charts a liberatory path forward. Blending metaphysics, relational psychoanalysis, Black Male studies, and Afro-diasporic spiritual wisdoms, Dr. O’Shan D. Gadsden offers a psycho-spiritual blueprint for restoring dignity, depth, and the possibility of authenticity to Black masculinities.
Across five clear, powerful chapters, Sacred Sons: A Healing Blueprint for Black Masculinities:
- Exposes how institutions have produced pathological images of Black males and how those images wound the mind, body, and spirit.
- Reinterprets development and socialization through a Black Male-Centered Transposition of the PVEST Model, illuminating how resilience and vulnerability co-exist under systemic assault.
- Introduces the Black Male-Centered Research-Clinical Model, equipping scholars and practitioners to do healing work without reinscribing harm to Black males.
- Guides Black men through reflexive, psycho-spiritual practices to unlearn archetypes, confront trauma, and expand their selfhood in ways that honor and mirror authenticity and creativity.
- Centers healthy brother-to-brother relationships as an essential ingredient for Black male individual and collective healing.
Both rigorous and deeply human, Sacred Sons is a call to remember that Black males are sacred, complex, and whole. For Black males, clinicians, educators, researchers, faith leaders, and families, this book offers language, models, and practices to move from surviving distortions to Black males living in liberated: authentic, and creative consciousness.
Scholar • Healer • Thought Leader
Dr. O’Shan D. Gadsden currently is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Psychology Department at Hampton University, a leading historically Black university in Virginia, Hampton University. He earned his M.A. in Clinical Psychology from Teachers College, Columbia University, and his Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from Howard University, specializing in Black masculinity development and emotional intimacy.
For over 20 years, Dr. Gadsden has advanced the mental, emotional, cultural, and spiritual health of marginalized communities, especially Black men, by blending relational-cultural psychoanalysis, metaphysical-spirituality, Black-centered, constructivist, and decolonized frameworks in his scholarship-research, teaching, clinical practice, and consultation.
His impact extends beyond academia. He co-edited a groundbreaking Journal of Black Sexuality & Relationships special issue on Black male trauma and identity, and spent three years on the JustHealBro Tour, engaging Black men in over 35 cities across the U.S. and abroad in transformative dialogues on healing, masculinity, and joy.
Dr. Gadsden’s forthcoming work, Sacred Sons: A Healing Blueprint for Black Masculinities (Nov. 2025)—pushes the field toward culturally rooted, spiritually integrated, and socially just paradigms of psychological-clinical-spiritual healing for Black men.
Over the last 20 years, Dr. Gadsden has been productive in the following areas of Leadership & Impact:
- Academic Leadership: Serving as chair of the Psychology Department at Hampton University.
- Clinical Leadership: Served as Training Director at a Black community-based clinic & Program Coordinator of a School-Based Testing/Therapy at a clinic.
- Scholarship: Scholarship (e.g., books, articles, public scholarships) Black male mental-emotional-cultural-spiritual health.
- Community Engagement: JustHealBro Tour & national healing dialogues.
- Thought Leadership: Decolonized, Black-centered frameworks for identity & healing.
Bridging scholarship, spirituality, and activism, Dr. Gadsden centers Black lived experience as the foundation for collective healing.
Black males are more than the stereotypes projected onto them. Sacred Sons names the damage of gendered racism, problematization, and conceptual incarceration and then charts a liberatory path forward. Blending metaphysics, relational psychoanalysis, Black Male studies, and Afro-diasporic spiritual wisdoms, Dr. O’Shan D. Gadsden offers a psycho-spiritual blueprint for restoring dignity, depth, and the possibility of authenticity to Black masculinities.
Across five clear, powerful chapters, Sacred Sons: A Healing Blueprint for Black Masculinities:
- Exposes how institutions have produced pathological images of Black males and how those images wound the mind, body, and spirit.
- Reinterprets development and socialization through a Black Male-Centered Transposition of the PVEST Model, illuminating how resilience and vulnerability co-exist under systemic assault.
- Introduces the Black Male-Centered Research-Clinical Model, equipping scholars and practitioners to do healing work without reinscribing harm to Black males.
- Guides Black men through reflexive, psycho-spiritual practices to unlearn archetypes, confront trauma, and expand their selfhood in ways that honor and mirror authenticity and creativity.
- Centers healthy brother-to-brother relationships as an essential ingredient for Black male individual and collective healing.
Both rigorous and deeply human, Sacred Sons is a call to remember that Black males are sacred, complex, and whole. For Black males, clinicians, educators, researchers, faith leaders, and families, this book offers language, models, and practices to move from surviving distortions to Black males living in liberated: authentic, and creative consciousness.
Scholar • Healer • Thought Leader
Dr. O’Shan D. Gadsden currently is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Psychology Department at Hampton University, a leading historically Black university in Virginia, Hampton University. He earned his M.A. in Clinical Psychology from Teachers College, Columbia University, and his Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from Howard University, specializing in Black masculinity development and emotional intimacy.
For over 20 years, Dr. Gadsden has advanced the mental, emotional, cultural, and spiritual health of marginalized communities, especially Black men, by blending relational-cultural psychoanalysis, metaphysical-spirituality, Black-centered, constructivist, and decolonized frameworks in his scholarship-research, teaching, clinical practice, and consultation.
His impact extends beyond academia. He co-edited a groundbreaking Journal of Black Sexuality & Relationships special issue on Black male trauma and identity, and spent three years on the JustHealBro Tour, engaging Black men in over 35 cities across the U.S. and abroad in transformative dialogues on healing, masculinity, and joy.
Dr. Gadsden’s forthcoming work, Sacred Sons: A Healing Blueprint for Black Masculinities (Nov. 2025)—pushes the field toward culturally rooted, spiritually integrated, and socially just paradigms of psychological-clinical-spiritual healing for Black men.
Over the last 20 years, Dr. Gadsden has been productive in the following areas of Leadership & Impact:
- Academic Leadership: Serving as chair of the Psychology Department at Hampton University.
- Clinical Leadership: Served as Training Director at a Black community-based clinic & Program Coordinator of a School-Based Testing/Therapy at a clinic.
- Scholarship: Scholarship (e.g., books, articles, public scholarships) Black male mental-emotional-cultural-spiritual health.
- Community Engagement: JustHealBro Tour & national healing dialogues.
- Thought Leadership: Decolonized, Black-centered frameworks for identity & healing.
Bridging scholarship, spirituality, and activism, Dr. Gadsden centers Black lived experience as the foundation for collective healing.