File contains materials comparing and analyzing the differences between the role of Yoruba and Elmira women. Includes research notes, answer scales and criteria, socioeconomic and employment data, family dynamic information, and statistical analyses.
File contains six reports, papers and proposals regarding child health, child welfare, and group homes in Nova Scotia, drafted between 1970-1975 by Alexander John Murchison and others.
File contains notes on case classification definitions and criteria and computer dataset printouts of case typology statistics for Yoruba villages and Stirling County.
File contains correspondence with Adolf Meyer. Also includes summaries of recording instruments, synopses of psychiatric cases, a transcript of "Mental health film," and transcripts of conferences and conversations.
File contains letters written between friends and colleagues Theodore Lidz and Alexander Leighton, beginning during the Second World War and continuing until 1951.
File contains 7 labelled videocassettes: Clinical Conference June 24, 1993 — Psychiatric Emergencies; Clinical Conference Nov 1994 — Railways, Pastry Cooks, Witches and other Delusions (Dr. J. Meagher); Clinical Conference Sept 1995 — Seniors' Mental Health Service Day Program; Clinical Conference Nov 24, 1995 — Delusional Depression in Late Life with Dr. D. Roberts and Dr. J. Walker; Clinical Conference Jan 19, 1996 — Presentation of a Cyclic Mood Disorder in a Young man with Autism and Mental Retardation; Clinical Conference Jan 26, 1996 — A Pillar of Society: The Life of Simeon the Stylite (Presenter Dr. Joseph Meager); and Management of Behavioural Disturbance in the Demented Elderly (Dr. Richard Goldberg, MD).
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."
File contains computer printout datasets of Stirling County statistics for female respondents. Also includes analysis card for Stirling county female psychiatric and social data.
File contains a report written in 1973 by Alexander Murchison and Edward Newell regarding a restructuring of child and adolescent programs and services in Nova Scotia to "stimulate community and government interest, participation, and action for change."
File includes copies of "A Survey of General Physicians : Manual for Participating General Practitioners" and "Appendix A : Nomenclature and Classification in the Stirling County Study."
