FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Dr. Roland Y. Kim, Ph.D., releases The Anti-Suicide and Homicide Manifesto, offering a trauma-informed framework for prevention rooted in early emotional development
Los Angeles, CA — [Dec. 2025] —
At a time of rising suicide rates, mass violence, and deepening social fragmentation, trauma researcher Roland Y. Kim, Ph.D., has released The Anti-Suicide and Homicide Manifesto: A Trauma Expert’s Honest Answer to Despair, a bold and compassionate work that challenges conventional explanations of self-destruction and violence.
Rather than treating suicide and homicide as unrelated phenomena—or reducing them to diagnoses, ideology, or moral failure—Dr. Kim presents a unified developmental framework showing how both emerge from the same origin: unhealed early emotional trauma that occurs before a child has words to describe it.
“The suicidal person turns violence inward; the violent perpetrator turns it outward,” says Kim. “But the wound is the same. Both are expressions of fear and shame that were never met with safety or attunement in early life.”
From Despair to Understanding — Without Blame or Excuse
Drawing on decades of clinical experience, psychoanalytic theory, and neuroscience, the Manifesto examines well-known cases of suicide alongside broader patterns of violence to illuminate how Silent Trauma™—early relational injury that goes unseen and unnamed—can shape a lifetime of despair, self-attack, or hostility toward others.
Central to the book is a simple but powerful formulation Kim calls the universal equation of violence:
Unsoothed Fear × Shame − Attunement = Rage
This equation, the Manifesto argues, applies not only to individuals but to families, institutions, and societies. When fear is met with control, neglect, or humiliation instead of emotional presence, it does not disappear—it transforms.
A Prevention-Focused Alternative to Punishment-Based Models
Unlike many works that focus on pathology after tragedy occurs, The Anti-Suicide and Homicide Manifesto is explicitly preventive. It calls for a shift in how mental health systems, schools, parents, and policymakers understand risk—away from reactive control and toward early emotional containment, empathic connection, and relational repair.
The book introduces a complementary healing equation:
Safety × Acknowledged Emotional Pain + Attunement = Integration
This framework positions empathy not as sentiment, but as infrastructure—the necessary condition for psychological regulation, moral development, and social stability.
Bridging Clinical Science and Moral Responsibility
Importantly, the Manifesto does not excuse harmful acts, nor does it assign blame to families or victims. All analyses are based on publicly available materials and are presented for educational and preventive purposes only, in alignment with ethical standards of the American Psychological Association.
Instead, Dr. Kim invites readers—clinicians, educators, journalists, policymakers, and the general public—to reconsider how early emotional environments shape the trajectory of human suffering, and how one attuned relationship can interrupt cycles of despair before they become fatal.
About the Author
Roland Y. Kim, Ph.D. is a trauma researcher, mental health educator, and author. He is the creator of the Five-Stage Civilization Model (Fear → Anger → Guilt → Freedom → Empathy) and the founder of the Silent Trauma Institute and Empathic Parenting Center. His work integrates developmental psychology, object relations theory, neuroscience, and moral philosophy to address the roots of individual and collective violence.
Availability
The Anti-Suicide and Homicide Manifesto: A Trauma Expert’s Honest Answer to Despair is available in public and academic editions in paperback and digital formats.
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