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Dalhousie University. Faculty of Medicine. Department of Psychiatry. Halifax Regional Municipality (N.S.)
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Cultural factors in a case of temporal lobe epilepsy associated with a schizophreniform psychosis / : Alexander Murchison and T.A.H. McCulloch : [manuscript]

Item is a draft manuscript written by Alexander Murchison and T.A.H. McCulloch (of Canadian Forces Hospital Halifax) in the early 1970s. The item addresses a case study of an 18-year-old "leading seaman, unmarried and of Ojibwa Indian extraction" admitted to the psychiatric unit of Canadian Forces Hospital in Halifax after a sudden onset of psychosis experienced by the patient shortly after his vessel left Halifax in 1968.

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Item is a videocassette of handheld, unedited footage of a street, people walking by the camera, views outside the Killam Hospital, and rehearsals for a song-and-dance variety show. The video was requested by Dr. McCormick from the Department of Psychiatry.