Social sciences

Unpublished manuscripts by Alexander Leighton

MS-13-86, Box 101, Folder 4
File
1980 - 2013

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains manuscripts for unpublished papers: "Barriers to the care of mental illness," "Antecedents of the mental health movement in Atlantic Canada : some implications for today," "The psychobiological orientation," and "Psychiatric diagnosis in life science perspective" by Alexander Leighton. Also includes related correspondence and review feedback forms.

Seminars on dynamic sociology

MS-13-86, Box 101, Folder 5
File
1938

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains reports and lecture scripts from the 1938 seminars on dynamic sociology.

Phyllis Geiss' research papers

MS-13-86, Box 27, Folder 10
File
1950

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains research plans, study summaries, and stress map reports by Phyllis Geiss.

Adolf Meyer's psychobiology course outlines

MS-13-86, Box 32, Folder 3
File

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains course outlines, teaching materials, and exam guidelines for Adolf Meyer's course on psychobiology and ergasiology.

Research institution program conferences and reports

Series
1950 - 1975

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Series contains documents related to programs and departments at various universities and research institutions.

Health and family life survey

Series
1969 - 1995

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Series consists of interview pamphlets from the Harvard-Dalhousie health and family life survey.

World War II: Japanese relocation, bombing surveys, and the Foreign Morale Analysis Division

Series
1942 - 1972

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Series contains documents related to the Japanese-American resettlement study and the Japanese bombing surveys. Also contains correspondence, reports, and memoranda related to the Foreign Morale Analysis Division and psychological warfare.

Psychiatric disorder grant applications

Series
1948 - 1974

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Series consists of numerous research proposals and grant applications for various joint and solo projects.

Mental health promotion

MS-13-86, Box 101, Folder 1
File

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains 4 manuscripts: "Mental health promotion in the perspective of North American psychiatry : a historical review" by Norman Dain, Gerald Grob, and Alexander H. Leighton, "Psychiatry in nineteenth-century United States : the rise and decline of moral treatment, a reevaluation" by Norman Dain, "Mental health policy in modern America: myth and reality" by Gerald N. Grob, and "Implications for mental health promotion" by Alexander H. Leighton.

Mental health : patterns of personality adaptation / by Alexander H. Leighton

MS-13-86, Box 101, Folder 2
File
1971

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of a manuscript by Alexander Leighton.

Promoting mental health and preventing mental illnesses : possibilities and risks / by Alexander H. Leighton and Jane M. Murphy

MS-13-86, Box 101, Folder 3
File
1989

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Full contains a (seemingly) complete manuscript for a book by Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy.

Training social scientists for post-war conditions / by Alexander H. Leighton

MS-13-86, Box 100, Folder 2
File
[1942?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of a manuscript for a paper on post-war social sciences.

The view from here : human values, the science of human relations and government / by Alexander H. Leighton

MS-13-86, Box 100, Folder 3
File
1946 - 1947

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains a manuscript for an article and correspondence regarding the article's editing and publication.

Our peace / Price of peace / by Alexander H. Leighton

MS-13-86, Box 100, Folder 4
File
1943 - 1947

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains three manuscripts: "Price of peace," "Our peace," and "An immediate task for an institute of ethnic democracy," and related correspondence.

Published articles by Alexander H. Leighton

MS-13-86, Box 27, Folder 4
File
1949 - 1972

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains 3 articles written by Alexander H. Leighton: "Mental health and the problem of cooperation between races and between nations," "Psychiatry and the health of the public," and "Reflections of a tender-minded radical."

Prevention of mental illness

Series
1958 - 2010

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Series contains materials related to the development of Alexander Leighton's book on the prevention of mental illness. Documents include manuscripts, correspondence, research notes, and copies of past publications.

Mental health and social environment : [manuscript]

MS-13-86, Box 30, Folder 19
File
[195-]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File includes a draft manuscript possibly for the book published as My Name is Legion: Foundations for a Theory of Man in Relation to Culture.

Societies, committees, task forces, and associations

Series
1939 - 2013

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Series consists of documents relating to the various boards and committees of which Alexander Leighton was a member.

Talks, reports, and studies

Series
1947 - 2013

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Series contains scripts for various lectures and talks. Also includes study proposals and final reports, and handbooks for study workers.

Journal reviews

Series
1970 - 1987

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Series consists of journal review submission drafts, forms, and related correspondence.

Presentations

Series
1938 - 2013

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Series consists of scripts for speeches and presentations delivered at various symposiums and meetings.

Teaching materials

Series
1941 - 1992

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

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.

Research proposals

Series
1938 - 1988

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains research proposals, grant applications, progress reports, and correspondence regarding several studies and programs.

Lectures

Series
1938 - 1956

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Series consists of scripts for various lectures and speeches, course materials, and some research proposals and case studies.

Communications and correspondence regarding Vietnam study

MS-13-86, Box 27, Folder 5
File
1972

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains summaries of phone conversations, letters, and reports between Alexander Leighton, Terry Rambo/Rambeau, Samuel Popkin, Philip Ross, Jerry Tinker, and Gerald Tinker regarding the psychological study in Vietnam.

Correspondence with anthropologists, 1937 - 1939

MS-13-86, Box 32, Folder 2
File
1937 - 1939

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of letters between Alexander Leighton and anthropologists and psychiatrists at various universities and hospitals.

Statement of project

MS-13-86, Box 32, Folder 4
File
[1953?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains three project proposals for psychiatric research studies.

Thomas A.C. Rennie's publications and correspondence

Series
1953 - 1956

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Series consists of publications and manuscripts by Thomas A.C. Rennie. Also contains Rennie's professional correspondence, lectures, and other material.

Beaver study correspondence

MS-13-86, Box 32, Folder 1
File
1931 - 1933

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File is loosely organized into two sections: Nova Scotia beaver and Norway beaver. Both sections contain correspondence to and from government officials, biologists, academics, and industry consultants regarding research for and publication of Alexander Leighton's study on beaver mental characteristics. The Norway section also contains excerpts from Norwegian newspapers. There is also a set of handwritten notes titled "Outline for study of the Beaver: D. Cross & A.H. Leighton."

Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences

MS-13-86, Box 27, Folder 11
File
1958

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains a list of research fellows of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and an outline of research for the Stirling County study.

Awards and appointments