File contains manuscripts, reports, and clippings collected by the Ecology Action Centre, related to the Solsearch Architects the New Alchemy Institute Ark project, constructed and operated in the late 1970s in Spry Point, Prince Edward Island, testing organic agricultural and environmental monitoring techniques.
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.
File contains notes and manuscripts written by Alexander Murchison and Norris Turner between 1972–1975 reviewing child guidance clinics and group homes in Nova Scotia. File also contains the June 1973 issue of the Nova Scotia Association of Social Workers Newsletter, with articles by Norris Turner , Patricia Hardy, Ernie Rafuse, F.M. Fraser, Martin M. Dolan, Linda Isitt, and Barrie R. MacFarlane.
File contains three manuscripts: "Price of peace," "Our peace," and "An immediate task for an institute of ethnic democracy," and related correspondence.
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File contains manuscripts for unpublished papers: "Barriers to the care of mental illness," "Antecedents of the mental health movement in Atlantic Canada : some implications for today," "The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.
File includes Alexander Leighton's paper and a written introduction by Marc-Adelard Tremblay for an address given to the Canadian Ethnological Society at Dalhousie University's Faculty Club on 24 February 1977.
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."
File contains handwritten manuscript pages with inconsistent pagination, sometimes clipped together in sections; file contents were divided between individual folders by the processing archivists in the same order and groupings as originally arranged and received.
File contains a manuscript for the introduction to Thomas Ling's book, "Mental Health and Human Relations in Industry." File also contains correspondence with Thomas Ling and publishers regarding the introduction.
File contains manuscripts for speeches, lectures, and conferences delivered in 1956. File also contains correspondence regarding their presentation and publication.
File contains correspondence with or about Pier M. Brunetti. Also includes activity reports, the Vaucluse Study health questionnaire and summary, and a copy of Brunetti's article "Are we fostering health?: Interdisciplinary considerations on the present ecologic and human crisis."
File contains correspondence with or about Norman A. Chance. Also contains a manuscript written by Norman A. Chance for an article titled "Conceptual and methodological problems in cross-cultural health survey research," to appear in the American Journal of Public Health.
File contains correspondence with or about John H. and Elaine Cumming. Also includes manuscripts of articles by the Cummings, titled "A functional analysis of a case of technological lag," and "Wooden ships and iron men: a general statement."
File contains correspondence with or about Elaine Cumming. Also contains a report on the Stirling County Study and an article by the Cummings titled "A functional analysis of a case of technological lag."
File contains correspondence with or about Odd Stefan Dalgard. Also contains manuscripts for two of Dalgard's articles entitled "Social mobility and psychiatric disorder : a reevaluation and interpretation," and "Introduction of intensive mileu therapy in a traditional psychiatric unit."
File contains correspondence with or about Alice Doerr/Nangeroni. Also contains manuscripts for the articles "Community agency survey - report on field work, summer, 1957" and "Overall plan for analysis: clinic-community survey." Also includes a copy of the Digby medical practice survey and a field work schedule.
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."
File contains correspondence with or about Janet Mathews Fitchen. Also includes manuscripts for articles and speeches: "Rural poverty in upstate New York: the collapse of community," and "Rural poverty in Northern Appalachia: analysis of economic patterns in depressed rural neighbourhoods."
File contains correspondence with or about Robert and Monique Gessain. Also contains lecturer registration forms, a manuscript for "Report on the sciences of man: can psychiatry travel?," a booklet titled "Nicolas et Antoine en Nouvelle Ecosse," and 6 photos : 4 b&w and 2 colour; 5 x 7 1/2 in and smaller.
File contains correspondence with or about Robert Gessain. Also includes a brochure for the International Association of Students in Economics and Commerce, photocopied journal articles, and manuscripts for "Avenues to understanding man," and "Lack of HTLV-1 and LAV/HTLV-III antibodies in patients with multiple sclerosis from France and French West Indies."
File contains correspondence with or about Iago Galdston. Also contains a list of consultants to the New York Academy of Medicine's advisory committee on "panic and morale." Also contains a manuscript for the article "Psychiatric disorder among the Yoruba: a report from the Cornell-Aro Mental Health Research Project in the Western Region, Nigeria."
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
File contains correspondence with or about W. W. "Nibs" Hill. Also includes a manuscript for "The inter-university field training program in cultural anthropology."
File contains correspondence with or about Max J. Heinrich. Also includes a summary of Heinrich's studies at Cornell University and a manuscript for "An overview of the Stirling County and related studies."
File contains correspondence with or about Guy Henderson. Also includes a manuscript for "A program of rural development for eastern Nova Scotia" and a booklet titled "Non-utopian democracy and the university."
File contains correspondence with or about Kenneth Johnstone. Also includes a manuscript titled "My name is legion, part III: a ten year mental health study in Nova Scotia is completed" by Ken Johnstone.
File contains correspondence with or about Clyde Kluckhohn. Also includes 2 copies of a manuscript titled "A declaration of interdependence: a creed for Americans as world citizens."
File contains correspondence with or about Shosaku Kubota. Also contains manuscripts for articles titled "A glimpse into Sartre's existentialism introduced to Japan" and "Spread of cultural movement to communities in Japan."
File contains correspondence with or about Ralph Kuna. Also includes manuscripts for "Cultural stress patterns and the psychopathology of Samuel Clemens" and "Hoodoo: the indigenous medicine and psychiatry of the Black American."
