Ramsay Liem
Biographic Data
| ID | 241984 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ramsay Liem |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ramsay |
| FAMILY NAME | Liem |
| SIGNATURE | LIEM R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Boston College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 154 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The Korean War, Korean Americans and the Art of Remembering
Rarely are personal life stories, art, film, spoken word, and history combined in public exhibition. Still Present Pasts: Korean Americans and the "Forgotten War" (SPP) is an exception. It weaves these elements into a multi-media, interactive experience that lifts the silence shrouding the Korean War, a pivotal event in Korean, United States, and KoreanAmerican history. A public space of memory, the exhibit explores the human experience of the Ko…
Silencing historical trauma: The politics and psychology of memory and voice
Considerable research has been published linking traumatic historical events, silence, and diverse psychological consequences. Silence about historical trauma is common among survivors, often creating impediments to healing and recovery and serving as a medium through which the intergenerational effects of catastrophic experiences are transmitted. Understanding the origins of this silence is important for psychologists concerned with the experien…
“So I've Gone around in Circles…”: Living the Korean War
To what extent memories of the Korean War constitute an unexpressed reservoir of shared experience in the Korean American community and whether or not giving voice to it can enhance individual and collective efficacy are questions motivating an oral history project I have been conducting for the past several years. This writing presents a single, more detailed life story compiled from nearly five hours of interviewing with one interviewee, Mrs. H…
Ethnic self-awareness as a function of ethnic group status, group composition, and ethnic identity orientation
This study found that ethnic self-awareness (i.e., the extent to which people are consciously aware of their ethnicity at any given moment) has different meanings for European Americans and Asian Americans and for Asian Americans with different ethnic identity orientations. The authors found main effects of ethnic group status and ethnic composition on ethnic self-awareness when comparing Asian Americans and European Americans. There was also an …
History, Trauma, and Identity: The Legacy of the Korean War for Korean Americans
(2003). History, Trauma, and Identity: The Legacy of the Korean War for Korean Americans. Amerasia Journal: Vol. 29, What Does It Mean to Be Korean Today? Part I. Across Nations, Generations and Identities, pp. 111-130
Acculturation and emotion among Asian Americans
This study examined the emotion experience of Asian Americans in relation to respondents' orientation to acculturation: Assimilation, Integration, Separation, or Marginalization (J. W. Berry, 1980). Ego- versus other-focused emotion experiences (H. R. Markus & S. Kitayama, 1991) and attention and valence, 2 stages in P. C. Ellsworth's (1994) model of emotion appraisal, were used to investigate the relation between acculturation and affect. Asian …
Silent famine in North Korea
An unprecedented humanitarian crisis has been building in the northern part of the Korean peninsula. Although reports differ, there's a consensus nevertheless that many of North Korea's 22 million people are vulnerable to severe malnutrition if not starvation. Because the nation has been made into a pariah state by the United States and its allies, the public—including Korean Americans and other Asian Americans—knows little about this tragedy
Shame and Guilt among First-And Second-Generation Asian Americans and European Americans
Shame and guilt narratives of first-and second-generation Asian Americans and multigeneration European Americans were collected in semistructured interviews to learn how respondents perceive the phenomenology, function, and interpersonal dynamics of these emotions. This article focuses on the formal characteristics of shame episodes reported by members of these groups and offers an interpretive explanation for differences that involve respondents…
Psychology under fire
The Pico Korea Workers' Struggle, Korean Americans, and the Lessons of Solidarity
(1992). The Pico Korea Workers' Struggle, Korean Americans, and the Lessons of Solidarity. Amerasia Journal: Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 49-68
Human Rights and Mental Health in the United States: Lessons from Latin America
During the past 10 years a small but growing number of mental health researchers and practitioners have developed collaborative relationships with Latin American colleagues working in the area of human rights and mental health. Illustrative programs include public opinion surveys to give voice to the victims of government and military repression in El Salvador, and creative workshops for children of the disappeared in Argentina. It has been espec…
Psychological Effects of Unemployment on Workers and Their Families
This paper reviews findings from a panel study of Boston area unemployed men and their families. Psychological effects of unemployment on workers and their wives are summarized, particularly for the first half year of joblessness. Family responses to job loss are also examined, including the role of the marital relationship in buffering workers' stress. Finally, policy and service implications of this research are discussed. Consideration is give…
The Social Costs of Unemployment: Implications for Social Support
Social support is typically viewed as a stable factor that is potentially an important moderator of the effects of stressful life events. This study examines the effect of one economic stressor, unemployment, on social support, the mediation of this effect, and then the stress-buffering hypothesis. Data were taken from a longitudinal panel study of 82 blueand white-collar men who recently experienced unemployment. Social support was measured in t…
Health and social costs of unemployment: Research and policy considerations
Health and social costs of unemployment: Research and policy considerations
Social Contexts of Health, Illness, and Patient Care
Unemployment and Mental Health Implications for Human Service Policy
The psychiatric impact of involuntary job loss is evaluated in this paper in light of the attitude among some policy makers that contemporary unemployment is associated with minimal personal costs. Research bearing directly and indirectly on the mental health consequences of job loss is reviewed. Preliminary findings from an ongoing study of family and personal impacts of job loss in which this writer is engaged are also presented. The collective…
Social Class and Mental Illness Reconsidered: The Role of Economic Stress and Social Support
Several bodies of research are reviewed for their contributions to defining the relationship of individual psychological disorder to social structure and process. The specific problem addressed is the relationship of social class to psychological impairment and its mediation. The generic problem is one of locating psychological processes and individual behavior within a societal framework. Recent work focusing on the effects of economic change an…
Social Class and Mental Illness Reconsidered: The Role of Economic Stress and Social Support
Several bodies of research are reviewed for their contributions to defining the relationship of individual psychological disorder to social structure and process. The specific problem addressed is the relationship of social class to psychological impairment and its mediation. The generic problem is one of locating psychological processes and individual behavior within a societal framework. Recent work focusing on the effects of economic change an…
Psychological Effects of Unemployment on Workers and Their Families
This paper reviews findings from a panel study of Boston area unemployed men and their families. Psychological effects of unemployment on workers and their wives are summarized, particularly for the first half year of joblessness. Family responses to job loss are also examined, including the role of the marital relationship in buffering workers' stress. Finally, policy and service implications of this research are discussed. Consideration is give…
The Social Costs of Unemployment: Implications for Social Support
Social support is typically viewed as a stable factor that is potentially an important moderator of the effects of stressful life events. This study examines the effect of one economic stressor, unemployment, on social support, the mediation of this effect, and then the stress-buffering hypothesis. Data were taken from a longitudinal panel study of 82 blueand white-collar men who recently experienced unemployment. Social support was measured in t…
Acculturation and emotion among Asian Americans
This study examined the emotion experience of Asian Americans in relation to respondents' orientation to acculturation: Assimilation, Integration, Separation, or Marginalization (J. W. Berry, 1980). Ego- versus other-focused emotion experiences (H. R. Markus & S. Kitayama, 1991) and attention and valence, 2 stages in P. C. Ellsworth's (1994) model of emotion appraisal, were used to investigate the relation between acculturation and affect. Asian …
Silencing historical trauma: The politics and psychology of memory and voice
Considerable research has been published linking traumatic historical events, silence, and diverse psychological consequences. Silence about historical trauma is common among survivors, often creating impediments to healing and recovery and serving as a medium through which the intergenerational effects of catastrophic experiences are transmitted. Understanding the origins of this silence is important for psychologists concerned with the experien…
Ethnic self-awareness as a function of ethnic group status, group composition, and ethnic identity orientation
This study found that ethnic self-awareness (i.e., the extent to which people are consciously aware of their ethnicity at any given moment) has different meanings for European Americans and Asian Americans and for Asian Americans with different ethnic identity orientations. The authors found main effects of ethnic group status and ethnic composition on ethnic self-awareness when comparing Asian Americans and European Americans. There was also an …
History, Trauma, and Identity: The Legacy of the Korean War for Korean Americans
(2003). History, Trauma, and Identity: The Legacy of the Korean War for Korean Americans. Amerasia Journal: Vol. 29, What Does It Mean to Be Korean Today? Part I. Across Nations, Generations and Identities, pp. 111-130
Human Rights and Mental Health in the United States: Lessons from Latin America
During the past 10 years a small but growing number of mental health researchers and practitioners have developed collaborative relationships with Latin American colleagues working in the area of human rights and mental health. Illustrative programs include public opinion surveys to give voice to the victims of government and military repression in El Salvador, and creative workshops for children of the disappeared in Argentina. It has been espec…
Shame and Guilt among First-And Second-Generation Asian Americans and European Americans
Shame and guilt narratives of first-and second-generation Asian Americans and multigeneration European Americans were collected in semistructured interviews to learn how respondents perceive the phenomenology, function, and interpersonal dynamics of these emotions. This article focuses on the formal characteristics of shame episodes reported by members of these groups and offers an interpretive explanation for differences that involve respondents…
Psychology under fire
Unemployment and Mental Health Implications for Human Service Policy
The psychiatric impact of involuntary job loss is evaluated in this paper in light of the attitude among some policy makers that contemporary unemployment is associated with minimal personal costs. Research bearing directly and indirectly on the mental health consequences of job loss is reviewed. Preliminary findings from an ongoing study of family and personal impacts of job loss in which this writer is engaged are also presented. The collective…
Social Class and Mental Illness Reconsidered: The Role of Economic Stress and Social Support
Several bodies of research are reviewed for their contributions to defining the relationship of individual psychological disorder to social structure and process. The specific problem addressed is the relationship of social class to psychological impairment and its mediation. The generic problem is one of locating psychological processes and individual behavior within a societal framework. Recent work focusing on the effects of economic change an…
Unemployment and Mental Health Implications for Human Service Policy
The psychiatric impact of involuntary job loss is evaluated in this paper in light of the attitude among some policy makers that contemporary unemployment is associated with minimal personal costs. Research bearing directly and indirectly on the mental health consequences of job loss is reviewed. Preliminary findings from an ongoing study of family and personal impacts of job loss in which this writer is engaged are also presented. The collective…
Health and social costs of unemployment: Research and policy considerations
Health and social costs of unemployment: Research and policy considerations
Social Contexts of Health, Illness, and Patient Care
The Social Costs of Unemployment: Implications for Social Support
Social support is typically viewed as a stable factor that is potentially an important moderator of the effects of stressful life events. This study examines the effect of one economic stressor, unemployment, on social support, the mediation of this effect, and then the stress-buffering hypothesis. Data were taken from a longitudinal panel study of 82 blueand white-collar men who recently experienced unemployment. Social support was measured in t…
Psychological Effects of Unemployment on Workers and Their Families
This paper reviews findings from a panel study of Boston area unemployed men and their families. Psychological effects of unemployment on workers and their wives are summarized, particularly for the first half year of joblessness. Family responses to job loss are also examined, including the role of the marital relationship in buffering workers' stress. Finally, policy and service implications of this research are discussed. Consideration is give…
Human Rights and Mental Health in the United States: Lessons from Latin America
During the past 10 years a small but growing number of mental health researchers and practitioners have developed collaborative relationships with Latin American colleagues working in the area of human rights and mental health. Illustrative programs include public opinion surveys to give voice to the victims of government and military repression in El Salvador, and creative workshops for children of the disappeared in Argentina. It has been espec…
The Pico Korea Workers' Struggle, Korean Americans, and the Lessons of Solidarity
(1992). The Pico Korea Workers' Struggle, Korean Americans, and the Lessons of Solidarity. Amerasia Journal: Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 49-68
Psychology under fire
Shame and Guilt among First-And Second-Generation Asian Americans and European Americans
Shame and guilt narratives of first-and second-generation Asian Americans and multigeneration European Americans were collected in semistructured interviews to learn how respondents perceive the phenomenology, function, and interpersonal dynamics of these emotions. This article focuses on the formal characteristics of shame episodes reported by members of these groups and offers an interpretive explanation for differences that involve respondents…
Silent famine in North Korea
An unprecedented humanitarian crisis has been building in the northern part of the Korean peninsula. Although reports differ, there's a consensus nevertheless that many of North Korea's 22 million people are vulnerable to severe malnutrition if not starvation. Because the nation has been made into a pariah state by the United States and its allies, the public—including Korean Americans and other Asian Americans—knows little about this tragedy
Acculturation and emotion among Asian Americans
This study examined the emotion experience of Asian Americans in relation to respondents' orientation to acculturation: Assimilation, Integration, Separation, or Marginalization (J. W. Berry, 1980). Ego- versus other-focused emotion experiences (H. R. Markus & S. Kitayama, 1991) and attention and valence, 2 stages in P. C. Ellsworth's (1994) model of emotion appraisal, were used to investigate the relation between acculturation and affect. Asian …
Ethnic self-awareness as a function of ethnic group status, group composition, and ethnic identity orientation
This study found that ethnic self-awareness (i.e., the extent to which people are consciously aware of their ethnicity at any given moment) has different meanings for European Americans and Asian Americans and for Asian Americans with different ethnic identity orientations. The authors found main effects of ethnic group status and ethnic composition on ethnic self-awareness when comparing Asian Americans and European Americans. There was also an …
History, Trauma, and Identity: The Legacy of the Korean War for Korean Americans
(2003). History, Trauma, and Identity: The Legacy of the Korean War for Korean Americans. Amerasia Journal: Vol. 29, What Does It Mean to Be Korean Today? Part I. Across Nations, Generations and Identities, pp. 111-130
“So I've Gone around in Circles…”: Living the Korean War
To what extent memories of the Korean War constitute an unexpressed reservoir of shared experience in the Korean American community and whether or not giving voice to it can enhance individual and collective efficacy are questions motivating an oral history project I have been conducting for the past several years. This writing presents a single, more detailed life story compiled from nearly five hours of interviewing with one interviewee, Mrs. H…
Silencing historical trauma: The politics and psychology of memory and voice
Considerable research has been published linking traumatic historical events, silence, and diverse psychological consequences. Silence about historical trauma is common among survivors, often creating impediments to healing and recovery and serving as a medium through which the intergenerational effects of catastrophic experiences are transmitted. Understanding the origins of this silence is important for psychologists concerned with the experien…
The Korean War, Korean Americans and the Art of Remembering
Rarely are personal life stories, art, film, spoken word, and history combined in public exhibition. Still Present Pasts: Korean Americans and the "Forgotten War" (SPP) is an exception. It weaves these elements into a multi-media, interactive experience that lifts the silence shrouding the Korean War, a pivotal event in Korean, United States, and KoreanAmerican history. A public space of memory, the exhibit explores the human experience of the Ko…
Psychology (15 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Economic growth (7 works) · Economics (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (6 works) · Health disparities and outcomes (5 works) · History (5 works) · Korean Peninsula Historical and Political Studies (5 works)