Item is a typed manuscript by Alexander Leighton describing his 1936 summer project filming a recreation of a traditional Digby County Mi'kmaq porpoise hunt and the subsequent rendering of the blubber into oil. The manuscript was commissioned by the magazine Movie Makers.
File contains manuscripts for unpublished papers: "Barriers to the care of mental illness," "Antecedents of the mental health movement in Atlantic Canada : some implications for today," "The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.
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?"
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.
File contains three manuscripts: "Price of peace," "Our peace," and "An immediate task for an institute of ethnic democracy," and related correspondence.
File contains manuscripts for two papers written by Alexander and Dorothea Leighton: "Illustrative examples of applied social science" and "A program for utilizing social science in the development of foreign policy."
File contains research notes and manuscript drafts. Also includes some of Alexander Leighton's other articles on illness prevention and community development and rehabilitation.
File contains pages 1 - 200 of a transcription of Alexander Leighton and Dorothea Leighton's interview with Bill Sage, edited and annotated by Joyce Griffen.
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.
File contains pages 201 - 471 of a transcription of Alexander Leighton and Dorothea Leighton's interview with Bill Sage, edited and annotated by Joyce Griffen.
File contains manuscripts of Isaiah Wilson stories, with titles "Fragments of Years," "The Cherry Carnival," "Into thy Hands," "The Russian," and "The Third Cardinal Virtue."
File contains a typed copy of Chapter 19, "Beginning," a letter to Jane Murphy from a typing and editing service, typed excerpts from John Muir's "Travels in Alaska," a poem called "Eskimo Funeral," and two copies of published articles by Robert N.Wilson.
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."
File contains a manuscript titled "The Cherry Carnival" submitted to a competition at Princeton, which later became part of the Isaiah Wilson stories. Also contains correspondence regarding the manuscripts and notes on Hezekiah Williams.
File contains a manuscript for an article, and related correspondence. An attached note says that the handwritten version of the article was titled "Boadecia the bold."
File contains a manuscript for an article on the use of the atomic bomb during World War II. Also includes relevant newspaper clippings and correspondence.
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