Archives Catalogue

MS-13-86, Box 13, Folder 7
File
[196-]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of computer printouts of education datasets and code.

Progress report for Cornell-Aro Mental Health Research Project

MS-13-86, Box 1, Folder 5
File
1961

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains an interim progress report for the Cornell-Aro Mental Health Research Project with reference to the National Institute of Health grant M-4506.

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.

Psychiatric symptom patterns and disorders

MS-13-86, Box 10, Folder 15
File
1961

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains memoranda on psychiatric statistics and analyses and a guidebook for symptom evaluation information card coding. File also includes notes on psychiatric findings.

Psychiatry and anthropology studies, 1939 - 1940

MS-13-86, Box 100, Folder 1
File
1938 - 1940

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains research proposals, conference papers, and articles titled "Psychobiology and ethnology," "A psychiatric investigation of anthropology," and "Some observations on 'Psychological leads for field workers.'"

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."

Recording of an interview with Dr. Alexander Leighton

MS-2-130, Box 14, Folder 13
File
February 23, 1981

Part of Barbara Hinds fonds

File contains a cassette tape recording of Barbara Hinds' interview with Dr. Alexander Leighton, a psychiatrist. The interview is about an investigation into the incidence of mental illness in western Nova Scotia. This is the fourth in a series of four interviews. The file also contains two typed scripts of intros and outros for two interviews with Dr. Leighton.

Recurrent psychotic attacks accompanying menstruation in a 13-year-old girl / by James F. Masterson and Thomas A. C. Rennie

MS-13-86, Box 32, Folder 14
File
[1954?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains two copies of the article written by Masterson and Rennie.

Reliability analysis between psychiatrists

MS-13-86, Box 10, Folder 14
File
[1961?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains an appendix (Appendix F) outlining procedures in comparing psychiatric evaluators' thought processes and conclusions surrounding the mental health of respondents of the Cornell-Aro study. File also includes information on analysis coding and a chart outlining mental health symptom statistics.

Reliability between psychiatric and social data

MS-13-86, Box 11, Folder 9
File
1961 - 1965

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains a summary of reliability tests made by comparing psychiatric and social data protocols of the Cornell-Aro study. Also includes a memo regarding Jane Murphy's study on literacy, sociocultural chance, and mental illness in rural Yorubans.

Reliability of data on literacy in Yoruba among men

MS-13-86, Box 13, Folder 9
File
1965

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of a memo from Jane Murphy to Cornell staff regarding an analysis of the reliability of literacy data among male Yoruba study subjects and its effects on future analysis.

Report #240 - Stirling County place names

MS-13-86, Box 30, Folder 18
File
1952

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Report #241 - Method book : public relations, 1953-1954, vol. 1

MS-13-86, Box 31, Folder 3
File
1953

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Report #241 - Method book : public relations, 1954 - June 30, 1955, vol. 2

MS-13-86, Box 31, Folder 4
File
1954

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Report #244 - Submissions and reports to province and Ottawa, volume 1

MS-13-86, Box 30, Folder 17
File
[1955?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Reports and proposals related to group homes and child welfare in Nova Scotia

MS-13-30, SF Box 65, Folder 12
File
1969-1974

Part of Alexander John Murchison fonds

File contains 11 reports, papers and proposals regarding child welfare and group homes in Nova Scotia, drafted between 1969-1974 by committees of the Atlantic Child Guidance Centre and the Children's Aid Society of Halifax.

Research design in the Stirling County study: a research program in social factors related to psychiatric health / by Alexander H. Leighton

MS-13-86, Box 29, Folder 13
File
1953

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains a report to the Department of Health and Welfare regarding research methods of the Stirling County study.

Research grant application for Cornell-Aro Mental Health Research Project

MS-13-86, Box 1, Folder 2
File
1959

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains a research grant application submitted to the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare to request funding for the Cornell-Aro Mental Health Research Project in Nigeria.

Respondents' articles

MS-13-86, Box 26, Folder 6
File
[1962-1963]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains journals and clippings of articles published by or relevant to study respondents.

Respondents' resistance to interviews

MS-13-86, Box 11, Folder 2
File
1961

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains notes on respondents who showed resistance during their interviews. Resisters' responses, actions, and symptoms are listed. File also includes letters between Alexander Leighton and Veronica Shaw discussing how to process resisters' interviews and comparing psychiatrists' evaluations of their responses.

Reviews of Nigeria study publications

MS-13-86, Box 101, Folder 9
File
1961 - 1965

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains clippings, periodicals, and correspondence regarding reviews of Alexander Leighton's book "Psychiatric Disorder among the Yoruba."

Reviews of Stirling County Study publications

MS-13-86, Box 101, Folder 8
File
1960 - 1966

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of clippings, periodicals, and correspondence regarding reviews of Alexander Leighton's published works on the Stirling County Study.

RIDIT and enlightenment for Yoruba men (prepared for Jane Murphy's 1964 orthopsychiatry paper)

MS-13-86, Box 13, Folder 12
File
[1964?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of datasets of education statistics for male Yoruba study respondents.

RIDIT calculations for 1961 and 1963 Yoruba studies

MS-13-86, Box 16, Folder 7
File
[1961?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of notes on data calculations and statistics from the 1961 and 1963 Nigerian studies.

RIDIT tables of marital status and ABCD

MS-13-86, Box 11, Folder 14
File
[1961?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of three pages of data tables of marital status statistics.

Ridit values for 1963 sample

MS-13-86, Box 7, Folder 1
File
[1963?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of ridit value datasets for urban and rural respondent samples.

Rin - Chinese women cross-cultural comparisons

MS-13-86, Box 15, Folder 22
File
1966

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains a copy of the study "Psychophysiological reactions of a rural and suburban population in Taiwan" by Hsien Rin, Hung-Ming Chu, and Tsung-Yi Ling. Also contains correspondence between Hsien Rin and Jane Murphy and notes and data tables on modernization rates and number of children among respondents.

Robert Collis Jr.'s thesis materials

MS-13-86, Box 12, Folder 6
File
[196-]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of maps, graphs, and charts taken from Collis Jr.'s thesis outlining physical and mental health correlations.

Seminar on Wheels

MS-13-86, Box 24, Folder 9
File
[1970 - 1979?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains photographs from one of Dalhousie's "Seminar on Wheels" series for students working on psychiatric epidemiology field experience.

Seminar on Wheels, 1992

MS-13-86, Box 24, Folder 10
File
1992

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains photos of participants of the 1992 Seminar on Wheels program.

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.

Social and cultural aspects of fertility among the Yoruba women of Nigeria / by Grafton Trout

MS-13-86, Box 9, Folder 6
File
1964 - 1965

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains a research proposal, progress report/speech, and several drafts of Trout's study on Yoruba fertility. File also includes a memo regarding Trout's summary of reliability for the 1961 Cornell-Aro study and several copies of the summary.

Social data card corrections

MS-13-86, Box 10, Folder 3
File
1961 - 1963

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains notes on coding and writing corrections to be made to social data questionnaire cards.

Social data from psychiatric questionnaire for women villagers, DPT (n=156)

MS-13-86, Box 15, Folder 4
File
1967

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of a computer printout dataset of psychiatric statistics for female villagers.

Social data from psychiatric questionnaire for Yoruba-Stirling comparison, DPT (n=245)

MS-13-86, Box 15, Folder 3
File

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of a computer dataset printout of Yoruba psychiatric data.

Social psychiatry : a definition / by Thomas A. C. Rennie

MS-13-86, Box 32, Folder 5
File
1955

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of an article by Thomas A. C. Rennie, reprinted from the International Journal of Social Psychiatry in 1955.

Social science respondents master lists

MS-13-86, Box 2, Folder 7
File
1961

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains lists of community respondents organized according to village or city square.

Sociocultural variables and psychiatric disorder in Yoruba men

MS-13-86, Box 13, Folder 13
File
[1965?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of charts and data tables of sociocultural statistics for Yoruba men.

Some aspects of technological change in relation to socio-cultural organization and personality patterning / by Albert Erha Imohiosen

MS-13-86, Box 12, Folder 8
File
[196-]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains a research proposal for the project along with filled social data questionnaires and semantic differentials questionnaires. Also contains 8 photographs of Nigerian individuals.

Speech by Alexander Leighton upon arrival in Nigeria

MS-13-86, Box 1, Folder 7
File
[1960?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains an English-Yoruba script for a speech delivered by Alexander Leighton upon his arrival in Nigeria.

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.

Statistical analysis of enlightenment, education, and literacy (for Cornell-Aro book, some used)

MS-13-86, Box 13, Folder 6
File
[196-]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains charts and tables of village education and literacy data analysis.

Statistical tests on change and disorder in Yoruba men for Jane Murphy's ethos paper

MS-13-86, Box 13, Folder 18
File
1966 - 1972

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains computer printouts of calculations for literacy statistics. Also includes copies of publications dealing with range tests: "Multiple range and multiple f tests" by David B. Duncan, "Extensions of multiple range tests to group means with unequal numbers of replications" by Clyde Young Kramer, and "Multivariate statistical programs" by Dean J. Clyde, Elliot M. Cramer, and Richard J. Sherin.

Stirling County study list of categories

MS-13-86, Box 30, Folder 5
File
June 1951

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains a list of data categories for the Stirling County study.

Stirling HOS analysis card and codebook 53PX (n=254)

MS-13-86, Box 15, Folder 1
File

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains computer printout datasets of Stirling County statistics. Also contains analysis cards for Stirling County psychiatric and social data.

Stirling report # - A proposal for research into the measurement of health in populations

MS-13-86, Box 29, Folder 6
File

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains a research proposal for further study in Stirling County, written by Alexander Leighton, Morton Beiser, Robert C. Benfari, and Jane M. Murphy.

Stirling report # - Behavioral science information