Korean Roots, American Growth: A Psychological Exploration

Korean Roots, American Growth

Roland Y. Kim, Ph.D.

About This Book

This book combines personal reflection, immigrant experience, psychology, parenting, and grief to explore how inherited cultural patterns and early emotional wounds can continue shaping adult identity, family relationships, and the struggle for psychological freedom.

What You’ll Explore

Suppressed anger and sadness; changing attitudes toward counseling; empathy and communication; immigrant-family childhood trauma; narcissistic injury; addiction, anxiety and depression; parenting and developmental milestones; independence and interdependence; overprotection and punishment; unfinished grief with parents; self-esteem; relational healing; and the author’s journey toward greater emotional freedom.

Who This Book Is For

For Korean American and other cross-cultural readers, parents, immigrants, and anyone interested in how cultural inheritance, family relationships, grief, and psychological development become woven into adult identity.