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Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds
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Research plan / M.L. Kohn

Item is a typed manuscript (lightly annotated and with a handwritten title page) outlining a preliminary research plan in response to the question: "Are there patterns of society and culture that predispose or produce neuroses and psychoses in the constituent members?"

Personality tests and psychoneurotic screening

File contains preliminary research plans, a seminar report on psychological testing, a multiphase personality inventory, and an excerpt on psychoneurotic screening in the Army, all written or originating with M.L. Kohn (1928-2021), who may have been a graduate or post-doctoral student at Cornell, working under Alexander Leighton.

Various manuscripts, reviews, proposals

File contains letters concerning the book "The Navaho Door" by Alexander Leighton and Dorothea Leighton, a 1945 copy of the New York Times Book Review covering Leighton's book "The Governing of Men," a bundle of abstracts from the American Philosophical Society's AGM in 1952, a bulletin on teaching English to the Navajo, and a proposal for a retirement commemoration conference for Alexander Leighton. Also includes some of Alexander Leighton's reports and articles: "Pilot study of cultural items in medical diagnosis," "Mental health in Canada: working toward a better future," "Cornell southwestern program: a summary report on five years 1948-1953," and "Interview with the editor of a small town paper."

Psychiatric evaluation procedure

File consists of a research proposal by Bruce Dohrenwend titled "Considerations which enter into the formulation of a research design for determining the effect of sociocultural factors on the psychiatric evaluation procedure."

Teaching materials

Series consists of course materials, proposals, and progress reports for various classes and lecture series. Also contains correspondence regarding these teaching sessions and miscellaneous lists and other planning materials.

Ford Foundation proposal

File contains correspondence regarding grants from the Ford Foundation for collaborative study between Harvard and the University of Ibadan. Also includes "Proposal for a program of research in mental health and mental illness."

Ottawa file

File contains correspondence regarding grant applications and proposals. Also contains completed applications and a proposal for "A program for community development in Digby County, Nova Scotia."

Zubin, Joseph

File contains correspondence with or about Joseph Zubin. Also includes research proposals for "An international commission on field studies of incidence of mental disorders" and "A cross-cultural study of diagnosis of mental disorders in Scandinavia."

Whyte, William Foote

File contains correspondence with or about William Foote Whyte. Also contains project and study summaries, Whyte's curriculum vitae, research reports, chapter manuscripts, research proposals, research plan outlines, and papers titled "Toward a new model for social research on health in Latin America" and "Developing the national survey for Peru: notes on planning discussion."

Tyhurst, James S.

File contains correspondence with or about James S. Tyhurst. Also contains course materials, project outlines and proposals, curricula vitae, research notes, and meeting transcriptions.

Tyhurst, James S. (continued)

File contains correspondence with or about James S. Tyhurst. Also contains course materials, project outlines and proposals, curricula vitae, research notes, meeting transcriptions, case notes, and manuscripts.
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