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PsychoEdu Global offers a growing collection of psychological resources in English, Korean, Japanese, and other languages—bringing psychological knowledge to individuals and families across cultures and around the world.
Books originally published in English may also be translated into additional languages, expanding access to PsychoEdu resources worldwide.
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New titles, resources, and language editions will continue to be added as the PsychoEdu Global Library grows.
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Explore a growing collection of PsychoEdu books and learning resources. Unlimited online reading is included with an active PsychoEdu Membership.
The Good Enough Mother Vol I Being There
A developmental guide to mothering from infancy through childhood—showing how safety, emotional regulation, boundaries, responsibility, and self-control gradually become capacities the child can carry within.
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The Good Enough Mother Vol II Letting Go
A developmental guide to mothering as the child becomes a separate person—showing how connection can remain strong while making room for differentiation, independence, privacy, empathy, and mature adult relationship.
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Jealousy and Envy
Why does someone else’s good sometimes hurt? Explore how jealousy and envy develop—and how we grow beyond possession, comparison, and rivalry.
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Protective Dyad Series Book 1: When A Spouse Becomes A Shield
When does loving support become a burden? Explore how one spouse becomes the emotional shield—and how relationships can move from carrying to mutual growth.
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The Developmental Architecture of Psychoanalysis
Why do major psychoanalytic thinkers seem to speak different emotional languages? A Five-Stage framework integrates Klein, Winnicott, Mahler, Bion, Fonagy, and a century of psychoanalytic thought developmentally.
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Five Planet Journey Parent Teacher Guide
A practical guide to understanding the **Five Planets of emotional growth** and helping children develop through safety, independence, responsibility, choice, and empathy.
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Five Planet Journey Vol1 Meerkat Planet
Visit Meerkat Planet and discover why feeling safe comes first. A story adventure that helps children and families understand the first stage of emotional growth.
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Five Planet Journey Vol2 Lion Planet
Join Nova on the **Lion Planet**, where children explore confidence, independence, boundaries, and the powerful discovery: **“I can do it!”**
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Five Planet Journey Vol3 Dog Planet
Join Nova on the **Dog Planet**, where children explore belonging, responsibility, cooperation, and the importance of caring for others.
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Five Planet Journey Vol5 Elelphant Planet
Join Nova on the **Elephant Planet**, where children discover empathy, collaboration, flexible boundaries, and the wisdom of seeing the whole person.
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Five Planet Journey Vol4 Chimpanzee Planet
Join Nova on the **Chimpanzee Planet**, where children discover freedom, personal choice, healthy boundaries, negotiation, and self-discipline.
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Extended Family Co-parenting
A practical guide to navigating boundaries, roles, and relationships when grandparents and extended family share in raising children.
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Unearthing and Overcoming Childhood Silent Trauma Through Empathic Parenting-Public Edition
Explores how early, often unrecognized childhood emotional wounds shape later development—and how empathic parenting can help break intergenerational patterns, strengthen connection, and support healthier emotional growth.
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Unearthing and Overcoming Childhood Silent Trauma through Empathic Parenting: Academic Edition
A research-oriented exploration of Silent Trauma that integrates psychoanalytic theory, attachment research, developmental neuroscience, and the Five-Stage Model to examine how early emotional wounds shape personality, relationships, and society—and how empathic attunement can support healing and prevention.
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A Cross-Cultural Exploration of Collectivism and Individualism: Korean American and Beyond
Explores collectivism and individualism through Korean American and broader cross-cultural experiences, examining how culture shapes parenting, marriage, communication, identity, relationships, and emotional development through psychological and Five-Stage perspectives.
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Empathic Connections: Avoiding Digital Age Parenting Pitfalls: From Infancy to Teen Years - Public Edition
A practical developmental guide to building empathic parent-child connections from infancy through the teen years, helping parents recognize common parenting pitfalls while fostering emotional security, autonomy, resilience, and healthy relationships in the digital age.
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Empathic Connections: Avoiding Digital-Age Parenting Pitfalls from Infancy to Teen Years-Academic Edition
An academically grounded guide to empathic parenting across four developmental periods—from infancy through high school—examining 50 common parenting challenges through psychological research, expert perspectives, case examples, and practical strategies for supporting healthy emotional development in the digital age.
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Silent Trauma and the Architecture of Evil-Academic Edition
Explores how unresolved Silent Trauma can develop into fear, shame, scapegoating, aggression, and destructive behavior—examining the psychological architecture of “evil” while showing how empathy, attunement, boundaries, and relational healing can interrupt its intergenerational transmission.
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When Emotion Is Left Unworked
When Emotion Is Left Unworked explores how unresolved childhood emotional pain can migrate into the body, intimate relationships, family roles, and the next generation. Using the Five-Stage developmental framework, it shows how unfinished grief may become a hidden organizing force—and how emotional integration can interrupt its transmission.
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Father's Awakening: A Hero's Path to Nurturing Child Mental Health - English
A practical and compassionate guide for fathers seeking to become more emotionally present in their children’s lives, offering psychological insight and concrete strategies for rebuilding connection, responding to emotional distress, and supporting children through mental-health challenges.
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Twilight Divorce - Summary Version
Why do stable marriages unravel after decades together? A developmental perspective on late-life divorce, changing identities, relationship patterns, and the possibility of growth.
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Twilight Divorce - Extended Version
Why do stable marriages unravel after decades together? A developmental exploration of late-life divorce, changing identities, relationship patterns, and personal growth.
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How can parents help children in mental crisis
A compassionate, practical guide for parents supporting children facing depression, emotional distress, or mental-health crises, emphasizing understanding, hope, self-worth, connection, and empathetic parenting as pathways toward healing.
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You Are Not Alone
A compassionate guide for people facing profound despair and suicidal thoughts, examining the emotional logic behind hopelessness while offering psychological understanding, trauma-informed perspectives, resilience tools, and a pathway toward renewed hope and connection.
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Avant-Garde Artist and Trauma as their Motivating Force
Explores avant-garde art through psychology, examining how early trauma, personality development, and rebellion against convention may shape artistic expression across painting, film, and music.
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WHY CAN'T YOU UNDERSTAND ME
A practical guide for teens and young adults to better understand their emotions, family conflicts, identity, and path toward greater independence.
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Nations Explored: Mapping the Path of Five Stages of Civilization
Explores nations through the Five-Stage framework, examining how fear, power, social order, freedom, and empathy shape cultures and their developmental paths.
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The Psychology of Mature Societies Reflecting on Sociocultural Blueprints
Explores psychological maturity at the societal level and applies the Five-Stage framework to the Global Empathy & Freedom Index (GEFindex), examining how empathy, freedom, responsibility, and human development can help assess the maturity of societies.
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Infant and Adult Development Guide-Object Relations Theory
A visual guide connecting early childhood development with adult emotional patterns, relationships, and psychological growth.
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A New Parenting Style for X, Y, Z, and Alpha Generation
A developmental guide to parenting Generations Y, Z, and Alpha with greater empathy, emotional understanding, and age-appropriate guidance.
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Protective Dyad Series Book 2: When Safety Becomes Distance
Explores how fear and attachment hunger can turn emotional safety into distance—and how couples can move toward greater connection and growth.
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Protective Dyad Series Book 3: Beyond the Protective Dyad
Explores how trauma-bonded couples can outgrow protective relationship roles while preserving connection and building a more mature partnership.
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Protective Dyad Series Book 4: When One Partner Changes
Explores how personal growth can disrupt a couple’s hidden relational pact—and how partners can adapt without experiencing change as betrayal.
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ProtectiveDyad Series Book 5: The Pacts That Made History Volume I
Explores famous relationships to reveal how hidden developmental pacts shape love, dependency, protection, power, and psychological growth.
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Protective Dyad Series Book 5: The Pacts That Made History Volume II
Explores how developmental pacts can become destructive, evolve, or give way to flexible partnerships where both partners can grow.
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Relationship Challenges in Trauma Affected Families
Relationship Challenges in Trauma-Affected Families explores how silent and early trauma can shape family relationships long after the original wounds are forgotten. Through a developmental lens, Roland Y. Kim, Ph.D., examines misunderstanding, conflict, emotional distance, sibling and couple dynamics, and the pathways toward repair—helping families replace blame with understanding, healthier boundaries, and empathy.
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Civilization Series Book I: The Age of Power Without Maturity
Explores the growing gap between humanity’s technological power and emotional maturity—and why our capacity to use power responsibly may determine civilization’s future.
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Civilization Series Book II: Trauma at Scale
Explores how unresolved emotional wounds scale into collective fear, shame, polarization, power struggles, and repeating patterns across institutions and civilization.
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Civilization Series Book III: The Work of Maturity
Explores what emotional maturity requires—and how individuals and societies can move beyond fear, control, and division toward responsibility, empathy, and collaboration.
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Civilization Series Book IV: Repair After Missed Timing
xplores what repair remains possible after developmental timing has been missed—and how relational scaffolding, empathy, and supportive systems can reduce harm without promising complete healing.
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Five Stages of Civilization Vol 1 Personality Development
A developmental exploration of how individuals, societies, and civilizations evolve through **five stages of psychological and social growth**.
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Five Stages of Civilization Vol II Socio-cultural Development
Explores how the Five-Stage model extends from individual development to culture, economics, politics, leadership, religion, social justice, and the arts—tracing societies’ movement toward greater independence, empathy, and collaboration.
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Five Planets Within Us
A Five-Planet developmental map of relationships—revealing how safety, counter-dependence, care, independence, and empathy shape love, conflict, compatibility, and growth.
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Korean Roots Growth In America A Psychological Exploration
An exploration of Korean identity, family, culture, and psychological roots, examining how inherited traditions shape who we become.
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자유롭고 싶은 영혼이여, 먼저 그리브하라
과거의 상처와 억눌린 분노·슬픔을 외면한 채 우리는 자유로워질 수 있을까요? 감정을 이해하고 그리브하는 과정을 통해 자신과 가족의 정서적 치유와 성장을 탐색합니다.
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성숙하고 싶은 나르시시즘믜 한국이여, 함께 그리브하라
개인의 상처에서 가정과 사회의 문제까지, 함께 그리브하는 과정을 통해 관계의 상처를 이해하고 정서적 성장과 치유의 길을 탐색합니다.
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워킹맘을 위한 공동육아의 심리학
조부모, 이모, 유모, 형제자매 등과 함께하는 공동육아에서 생길 수 있는 심리적 사각지대를 이해하고, 건강한 경계와 소통으로 아이의 안정적인 발달을 돕는 실용적 가이드.
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황혼이혼
안정적이던 결혼은 왜 황혼기에 흔들릴까요? 황혼이혼을 정서 발달, 변화하는 자아와 관계, 그리고 뒤늦은 성장의 관점에서 살펴봅니다.
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아버지들이여 깨어나라: 자녀 정신 건강을 위한 아버지들의 지침서
관여하지 않는 아버지는 대개 아이에게서 어떤 특이한 징후도 알아차리지 못할 운명에 처해 있게 됩니다. 이렇듯 아이의 정서적 고통을 알아차리지 못하고 그에게 적절한 도움을 주지 못하면 아이의 고립감과 미래에 대한 절망적인 전망이 강화되어 우울증을 키울 수 있습니다. 특히 사춘기 초반에 자녀의 행동 중의 작은 징후를 발견하여 사각지대를 확인하는 아버지의 적극적인 역할은 전적으로 아내에게만 자녀양육을 맡기지 않고 취할 수 있는 가장 현명한 전략이 될 수 있습니다.
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심리상담으로 당신의 자녀와 가정도 희망을 가질 수 있다
심리상담에 대한 오해를 풀고, 자기이해와 정서적 성장, 부모·자녀 관계, 부부관계와 청소년 문제에서 상담이 왜 필요한지를 살펴봅니다.
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자긍심은 부모가 자녀에게 줄 수 있는 최고의 선물
부모의 양육이 자녀의 성격과 자긍심에 미치는 영향을 살펴보고, 공감적 대화와 건강한 훈육을 통해 자녀의 자긍심을 키우는 방법을 제시합니다.
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공부 안하는 자녀의 학업성취의 동기향상을 위한 EQ중심의 자녀교육
자녀의 성취동기와 정서적 성장을 이해하고, 독립성·학습습관·자긍심을 키우는 EQ 중심의 실천적 자녀교육법을 제시합니다.
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결혼의 심리학
사랑은 왜 갈등으로 변할까요? 무의식적 배우자 선택, 성격 충돌과 정서적 상처를 이해하며 건강한 결혼과 성장의 길을 탐색합니다.
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黄昏離婚
安定していた結婚は、なぜ黄昏期に揺らぐのでしょうか。変化する自己と夫婦関係、そして遅れて訪れる成長という視点から黄昏離婚を読み解きます。
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Why I Created PsychoEdu Library
My journey toward PsychoEdu library began with a lifelong search to understand some of the most difficult questions of human life—suffering, relationships, development, healing, and growth. I first searched for answers through philosophy and the social sciences, but it was through psychology, psychoanalysis, and the study of human development that I began to find a framework for understanding many of the questions that had followed me since early life. Over the years, I accumulated books, lectures, courses, and practical resources that I wanted to make useful far beyond the consulting room or classroom.
A Daily Commitment to Understanding Yourself and Others:
In a fast-paced digital world that constantly competes for our attention, one of the most valuable decisions we can make is to set aside time each day to understand ourselves and the people with whom we share our lives. PsychoEdu Global was created with a simple mission: to bring the insights of psychology and more than a century of psychoanalytic study into everyday life. A daily habit of psychological self-education gives us a moment to slow down, reflect, and recognize the emotional patterns that shape how we think, love, parent, communicate, work, and grow. Psychology is not only about treating problems; it provides a foundation for understanding nearly every important human relationship—from marriage and romance to parent-child and sibling relationships, friendships, and the workplace. Even a few minutes of thoughtful learning each day can deepen self-awareness, strengthen empathy, and help us make more conscious choices. Investing time in understanding the human mind and relationships is ultimately an investment in living a more meaningful, connected, and fulfilling life.
I created PsychoEdu because I believe psychological knowledge should not be available only when someone is in crisis or able to afford expensive professional services.
Psychological knowledge should not simply help us when something goes wrong. It should grow with us, helping us understand ourselves and one another throughout life. That is the purpose of PsychoEdu.
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