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#186 — The Stirling County Study : A research program in social factors related to psychiatric health — fourth annual report

MS-13-86, Box 28, Folder 18
Item
November 1954

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Item is Alexander Leighton's fourth annual report on the Stirling County study.

1965 - 1966 re-abstracting Yoruba manual

MS-13-86, Box 9, Folder 13
File
1966

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of a re-abstracting manual for the Yoruba study data to update the research goal to compare urban and rural mental health and limit bias in analysis. File also includes respondents' answers to health surveys and a memo regarding evaluation of Yoruba abstracts.

1967 meeting on Yoruba study

MS-13-86, Box 9, Folder 12
File
1967

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains materials from a meeting on the Yoruba studies, including charts and datasets demonstrating psychiatrist's agreement analysis and findings and ABCD analysis.

A handbook for the psychiatric evaluation of personal data as developed by the Stirling County study and the Cornell Program in Social Psychiatry / by Alexander H. Leighton and Dorothea C. Leighton

MS-13-86, Box 29, Folder 17
File
1965

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains a large handbook on psychiatric evaluation as written by Alexander Leighton and Dorothea Leighton for the Stirling County study.

A study of resistance to psychiatric epidemiological interviewing among the Yoruba / by Zebulon C. Taintor

MS-13-86, Box 12, Folder 5
File
1962 - 1963

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains documents relating to Taintor's study and two drafts of the full study text. Includes mental and physical health surveys and datasets, interview fieldnotes, and statistics and calculations. Also contains a letter from Laurel Hodgden regarding the usability of the data.

A survey of general physicians : manual for the psychiatric interview and use of the summary sheet : the Stirling County Study / Jane M. Murphy, PhD

MS-13-86, Box 31, Folder 2
File
1995

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

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."

Affiliated studies using the 1961 and 1963 study data

Subseries
1960 - 1973

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Subseries consists of affiliated studies by other authors that used the data from the 1961 Cornell-Aro and 1963 role of women studies. Contains some articles written by staff members of the 1961 and 1963 studies.

Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

MS-13-86
Fonds
1837-2020, predominant 1904-2008

Fonds contains records created and collected primarily by Alexander H. Leighton, with some by Jane Leighton Murphy. Documents span from Leighton's studies at Princeton, Cambridge, and Johns Hopkins univerities, through his government employment in World War II, and his teaching career at Cornell, Dalhousie, and Harvard. The majority of records are related to the 1961 Cornell-Aro Mental Health Research Project and the 1963 Study on the Role of Women, both based in Nigeria, and the Stirling County Study, based in Nova Scotia. Record types include correspondence, manuscripts, grant applications, reports, photographs and slides, medical and academic records, method and guidebooks, reviews, offprints and publications, teaching and course materials, and surveys and interview transcripts.

A sous-fonds contains records documenting the migration of Alexander Leighton's parents from Ireland to the United States and their subsequent life in Philadelphia. The sous-fonds contains extensive correspondence between extended family members over the course of a century, as well as photographs, diaries, wills, family trees, memoirs, and Alexander Leighton's personal correspondence.

Murphy, Jane Leighton

Alexander Leighton's CVs, folder 1

MS-13-86, Box 96, Folder 6
File
1938 - 2011

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains several versions of Alexander Leighton's curricula vitae and biographical notes. Also contains correspondence, article title lists, library request documents, and some of Leighton's published articles.

Alexander Leighton's library catalogues and curriculum vitae

MS-13-86, Box 96, Folder 8
File
1961 - 2011

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains Alexander Leighton's curriculum vitae and lists of Leighton's works in library catalogues. Also includes reprints of Leighton's articles "The Stirling County Study: some notes on concepts and methods" and "From the point of view of social psychiatry."

An assessment of mental health patterns in a Nigerian factory: the Nigerian Tobacco Co. study / by Karin Himmelstrand

MS-13-86, Box 15, Folder 21
File
1966

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Two drafts of Himmelstrand's study analyzing the mental health of Nigerian factory workers.

An experimental study of inter-cultural adjustment / by Alexander H. Leighton and Dorothea C. Leighton

MS-13-86, Box 99, Folder 14
File

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of a project outline for increasing medical aid in Navajo communities.

Analysis of cultural change / by Fred Ilfield

MS-13-86, Box 9, Folder 5
File
1966

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains printouts of computer code, and graphs and datasets analyzing socioeconomic acculturation of Yoruba women. File also includes three copies of Ilfield's study "Acculturation levels and mental health of 120 educated Yoruba women."

APA Task Forces on Transcultural Psychiatry and Poverty

Ms-13-86, Box 68, Folder 5
File
1965 - 1970

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains reports to the American Psychiatric Association's task forces on poverty and transcultural psychiatry. Also includes meeting minutes, correspondence, and policy statements.

Awards and appointments

Series
1945 - 2005

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Series consists of Alexander Leighton's award certificates and professional appointment documents.

Boston conference

MS-13-86, Box 66, Folder 3
File
1972

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains a report on the Vietnam herbicide study to be presented at a conference in Boston.

Bureau of Sociological Research

MS-13-86, Box 98, Folder 10
File
1951

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains information on the Bureau of Sociological Research, including personnel lists and structural features. Also includes a report on the Bureau.

Butler, John

MS-13-86, Box 35, Folder 22
File
1954 - 1958

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains correspondence with or about John Butler. Also contains a report on program fellowship.

Campbell, Coline

MS-13-86, Box 36, Folder 5
File
1979 - 2011

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains correspondence with or about Coline Campbell. Also includes a National Health Scientist progress report by Alexander Leighton.

Cardoza, Victor (1968 - )

MS-13-86, Box 36, Folder 11
File
1958 - 1974

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains correspondence with or about Victor Cardoza. Also contains newspaper clippings about Victor Cardoza being appointed Judge, a blank Nova Scotia hospital outpatient registration form, and a copy of the president's report from the 1974 "mental health/nova scotia" annual meeting.

Colorado River War Relocation Project

MS-13-86, Box 99, Folder 13
File
1942

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of a proposal/report for the Colorado River relocation of evacuated Japanese-American citizens.

Committee on Navajo Education

MS-13-86, Box 68, Folder 6
File
1944 - 1945

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains correspondence with, and reports for, and meeting minutes of the Committee on Navajo education.

Common medical diseases in Yoruba villages / by Sylvia von Severus

MS-13-86, Box 12, Folder 7
File
1960

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of a report by von Severus on the physical health conditions prevalent in Yoruba village to determine their eligibility in the 1961 Cornell-Aro study.

Computer assigned symptom evaluation

MS-13-86, Box 67, Folder 23
File

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of a report titled "CASE - Computer assigned symptom evaluation: an instrument for psychiatric epidemiological application."

Considerations and proposals regarding indicators of sociocultural disintegration in the Egba setting / by Charles C. Hughes

MS-13-86, Box 10, Folder 4
File
1961

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of a second draft of the handbook by Charles C. Hughes written as part of the Cornell-Aro study. File also contains a page of notes on indicators of disintegration.

Cornell program in social anthropology

MS-13-86, Box 64, Folder 9
File
1947 - 1962

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains a pamphlet on Cornell University's studies in Culture and Applied Sciences. Also includes proposals and progress reports on the program. Also contains correspondence about and teaching materials for the program.

Cornell Program in Social Psychiatry annual reports

MS-13-86, Box 101, Folder 6
File
1950 - 1966

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains memoranda and annual reports for staff meetings of the Cornell Program in Social Psychiatry.

Cornell-Digby Development Project

MS-13-86, Box 67, Folder 12
File

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains two drafts of a report or proposal for the Cornell-Digby Development Project.

Correspondence for the Foreign Morale Analysis Division

MS-13-86, Box 98, Folder 16
File
1944 - 1945

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains correspondence, memoranda, study plans, and analytical reports related to the Foreign Morale Analysis Division. Documents specifically relate to psychological study of Japanese civilians and prisoners of war.

Dohrenwend, Bruce P.

MS-13-86, Box 39, Folder 6
File
1954 - 1957

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains correspondence with or about Bruce P. Dohrenwend. Also contains memos and manuscripts for reports and articles: "The problems of units of analysis as it applies to definition of community units and the FLS stratification of Digby County," "Classification system for community industries and occupations" and "Conceptualization and operationalization of conditions which may contribute to social organization-disorganization in the focus areas of Stirling County."

Domestic household composition among the rural Egba Yoruba / by Charles C. Hughes, David B. Macklin, Jane M. Murphy

MS-13-86, Box 12, Folder 10
File
1962

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains a copy of the study by Hughes, Macklin, and Murphy. Also contains compiled responses to the social data questionnaire.

Eaton, Joseph W.

MS-13-86, Box 39, Folder 24
File
1950 - 1966

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains correspondence with or about Joseph W. Eaton. Also contains a project summary for "An experiment in comprehensive informal education: the Gadna Program."

Education and psychiatric disorders

Subseries
1960 - 1972

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Subseries consists of various statistical analyses done of data from the Yoruba studies, particularly in relation to education and male respondents. Memos, reports, publications, dataset printouts, and analysis manuals present.

Epidemiology project report

MS-13-86, Box 63, Folder 6
File
1976

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains two copies of a progress report for a National Health Grant for "Epidemiology of mental health and mental illness."

Eskimo and Yoruba case vignettes for Alexander Leighton's APA paper on paranoid reaction

MS-13-86, Box 15, Folder 16
File

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of individual psychiatric respondent case summaries from the Nigerian and Alaskan studies.

Extra copies of crucial tables (C - A analysis)

MS-13-86, Box 11, Folder 3
File
[196-]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains notes on and tables of psychiatric rating and impairment statistics. There is much comparison between Yoruba villages, Abeokuta, and Stirling County and analysis of respective physical and mental health symptoms and patterns.

Farming practices among Egba Yoruba / by Jola Sowemima

MS-13-86, Box 12, Folder 2
File
1961

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains two drafts of a report for the 1961 study on farming practices in villages surrounding the Abeokuta region.

Financial report - work sheets

MS-13-86, Box 26, Folder 3
File
1963 - 1967

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains expense lists and financial documents and reports for the Social Science Research Council regarding the Role of Women study.

G, miscellaneous

MS-13-86, Box 42, Folder 15
File
1947 - 1992

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains correspondence with or about various individuals whose last names begin with G. Also includes "The effectiveness of the home demonstration program in reaching rural people and in meeting their needs," and "Supplemental note on sociocultural aspects of the proposed program."

Gerald Klerman's research papers

MS-13-86, Box 27, Folder 8
File
1950

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains 7 research papers written by Gerald Klerman when he was a student of Alexander Leighton's.

Goldfarb, Allan

MS-13-86, Box 42, Folder 1
File
1959 - 1965

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains correspondence with or about Allan Goldfarb. Also contains a psychiatric study outline, study progress reports and budget outlines, and grant applications.

Grant no. MH 08180-02 and 02S1

MS-13-86, Box 97, Folder 5
File
1963 - 1965

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains an application for and correspondence regarding grant no. MH 08180-02 and 02S1. Also contains progress reports and project summaries.

Grant no. MH 12892-01

MS-13-86, Box 97, Folder 11
File
1965 - 1967

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains grant applications, research proposals, and a final report for the Cornell Program in Social Psychiatry.

Greenleaf, Robert K.

MS-13-86, Box 42, Folder 10
File
1947 - 1954

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains correspondence with or about Robert K. Greenleaf. Also includes leader training information, member lists, and program outlines for the meetings on human relations. Also includes the articles "Proposed study to develop the direct training plans for getting policy matters across to employers," "People in the bell system," "Morale is the capacity of a group of people to pull together in pursuit of a common purpose."

Gregorio, the hand-trembler : a psychobiological personal study of a Navaho Indian / by Alexander H. Leighton and Dorothea C. Leighton

MS-13-86, Box 95, Folder 3
File
1949

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of a coil-bound reprint of the article from the Reports of the Ramah Project of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology.

Guttman scale for mental health and acculturation level analysis

MS-13-86, Box 9, Folder 1
File
[1966?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains printouts of computer code, graphs comparing the relationship between mental health and acculturation, and a study by Frederic Ilfeld titled "Acculturation levels and mental health of 120 educated Yoruba women."

Harvard School of Public Health department development

MS-13-86, Box 101, Folder 7
File
1966 - 1971

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains memoranda, reports, and proposals related to the development of the Behavioral Science Department of the Harvard School of Public Health.

Hatcher, J. Donald

MS-13-86, Box 43, Folder 21
File
1976 - 1995

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains correspondence with or about J. Donald Hatcher. Also includes script for address to the Dalhousie Faculty of Medicine, Franklin M. M. White's schedule and curriculum vitae, and the article "Curriculosclerosis - will medical education change?".

Hiatt, Howard H.

MS-13-86, Box 44, Folder 11
File
1972 - 1975

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains correspondence with or about Howard H. Hiatt. Also includes the article "A program in mental health in the Harvard School of Public Health" by Morton Beiser and a draft of the Harvard School of Public Health's annual dean's report for 1973-1974

Hollingshead scale for socioeconomic status analysis of urban women and their husbands

MS-13-86, Box 9, Folder 3
File
[1965 - 1966?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains printouts of computer code, datasets and statistics on respondents' occupations and economic status, and notes on coding education data. File also includes a copy of "Two factor index of social position" by August B. Hollingshead.

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