Archives Catalogue

"The Road" case study

MS-13-86, Box 27, Folder 1
File
1970

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains documents related to the case study of "The Road," an impoverished area in Stirling County.

Phyllis Geiss' research papers

MS-13-86, Box 27, Folder 10
File
1950

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains research plans, study summaries, and stress map reports by Phyllis Geiss.

Stirling report #66 - Social environment and psychiatric disorders : A plan for an epidemiological study

MS-13-86, Box 27, Folder 2
File
1951

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains a report outlining the purpose, framework, objectives, and research plan for the Stirling County study.

Stirling report #42 - Handbook: The Stirling County studies in community development (indicators of social disintegration)

MS-13-86, Box 27, Folder 3
File
1967

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of a handbook of social and psychiatric principles to be used by social science researchers working on the Stirling County study.

Published articles by Alexander H. Leighton

MS-13-86, Box 27, Folder 4
File
1949 - 1972

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains 3 articles written by Alexander H. Leighton: "Mental health and the problem of cooperation between races and between nations," "Psychiatry and the health of the public," and "Reflections of a tender-minded radical."

Communications and correspondence regarding Vietnam study

MS-13-86, Box 27, Folder 5
File
1972

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains summaries of phone conversations, letters, and reports between Alexander Leighton, Terry Rambo/Rambeau, Samuel Popkin, Philip Ross, Jerry Tinker, and Gerald Tinker regarding the psychological study in Vietnam.

Personality tests and psychoneurotic screening

MS-13-86, Box 27, Folder 9
File
[1949?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains preliminary research plans, a seminar report on psychological testing, a multiphase personality inventory, and an excerpt on psychoneurotic screening in the Army, all written or originating with M.L. Kohn (1928-2021), who may have been a graduate or post-doctoral student at Cornell, working under Alexander Leighton.

Research plan / M.L. Kohn

MS-13-86, Box 27, Folder 9, item 1
Item

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

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?"

Seminar report on paper-and-pencil tests (non-projective) for screening psychoneurotics and psychotics / M.L. Kohn

MS-13-86, Box 27, Folder 9, item 2
Item
7 November 1949

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Item is a handwritten report with a preface attributing a large portion of the material "from a preliminary report on psychological testing prepared by Dr. Frank Freeman of Cornell University."

Kohn's notes and references about the Minnesota multiphasic personality inventory

MS-13-86, Box 27, Folder 9, item 3
Item
[1949?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Item is a set of handwritten notes dated 21 November.

Typed notes from "The Screening of Psychoneurotics in the Army: Technical Development of Tests"

MS-13-86, Box 27, Folder 9, item 4
Item
[1949?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Item is a typed set of notes about "The Screening of Psychoneurotics in the Army: Technical Development of Tests," chapter 13 of The American Soldier, Volume IV.

Handwritten summary of "The Screening of Psychoneurotics," chapter 14 of The American Soldier, Volume IV

MS-13-86, Box 27, Folder 9, item 5
Item
[1949?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Item is a three-page summary written by H.L. Kohn.

Stirling report #366 - Planning statement for Stirling County study

MS-13-86, Box 28, Folder 10
File
1948

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains a planning statement report for the Stirling County study.

Stirling report #444 - Maine-Stirling county workshop report

MS-13-86, Box 28, Folder 11
File
1961

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains a report from a workshop in Augusta, Maine regarding the sociocultural factors and psychiatric epidemiology of the Stirling County study.

Stirling report #183 - Planning conference

MS-13-86, Box 28, Folder 12
File
1954

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains a report on a planning conference for the Stirling County study.

Stirling report #182 - "Tooling-up" HOS for Stirling measurement

MS-13-86, Box 28, Folder 13
File
1954

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains an interim report on symptom data and measurement in the Stirling County study.

Stirling report #179 - Stirling project PCS method book

MS-13-86, Box 28, Folder 14
File
1954

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains a report on a method book for the Stirling County study.

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

MS-13-86, Box 28, Folder 15
Item
1951

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

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

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

MS-13-86, Box 28, Folder 16
Item
1952

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

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

Stirling report #150 — The Stirling County Study : A research program in social factors related to psychiatric health — third annual report

MS-13-86, Box 28, Folder 17
Item
1953

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

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

#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.

Stirling report #218 — The Stirling County Study : A research program in social factors related to psychiatric health — fifth annual report

MS-13-86, Box 28, Folder 19
Item
June 30, 1955

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

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

Stirling report #367

MS-13-86, Box 28, Folder 6
File

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains a typed transcription of an interview with lawyer Theriault.

Stirling report #362 - Field report on Stirling County Study field work, 1954, by Frank W. Young

MS-13-86, Box 28, Folder 7
File
1954

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains a report on how to delineate the sub-groups for the Stirling County Study.

Stirling report #452

MS-13-86, Box 28, Folder 8
File

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains a report on the frame of reference for the Stirling County study.

Stirling report #438 - A program for community development in Stirling County

MS-13-86, Box 28, Folder 9
File

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of a research proposal for community development for the Stirling County study.

Stirling report #329 — The Stirling County Study : A research program in social factors related to psychiatric health — sixth annual report

MS-13-86, Box 29, Folder 1
Item
June 30, 1956

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

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

The evolution of a rural mental health center / by D. Shapiro, and a research proposal by Alexander Leighton

MS-13-86, Box 29, Folder 10
File
1971

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains a letter and research proposal for "Control and prevention of psychiatric disorders in community populations" by Alexander Leighton, and a report by D. Shapiro.

Stirling report #A - A brief outline, 1956

MS-13-86, Box 29, Folder 11
File
1956

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains a report outlining the purpose and methods of the Stirling County study.

Outline of the Stirling County study / by Alexander H. Leighton

MS-13-86, Box 29, Folder 12
File

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of an outline of the Stirling County study.

Research design in the Stirling County study: a research program in social factors related to psychiatric health / by Alexander H. Leighton

MS-13-86, Box 29, Folder 13
File
1953

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains a report to the Department of Health and Welfare regarding research methods of the Stirling County study.

Research design in the Stirling County study: a research program in social factors related to psychiatric health / by Alexander H. Leighton

MS-13-86, Box 29, Folder 13
Item

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Item is a report to the Department of Health and Welfare regarding research methods of the Stirling County study.

Stirling report #27 - Memorandum: range of researchable categories of conflict in Stirling county

MS-13-86, Box 29, Folder 14
File
1951

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains a memorandum outlining sources of stress and conflict among respondents in Stirling County.

Stirling report #54 - Stirling County Study field manual

MS-13-86, Box 29, Folder 15
File
1950

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains a research manual for field work for the Stirling County Study. The manual indicates that researchers could keep one copy of their field notes and reports for their personal or university's files and that all others remained the property of Cornell University.

Stirling report #38 - Chapter 4 : sociological objectives and research plan

MS-13-86, Box 29, Folder 16
File

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains the fourth chapter of one of Alexander Leighton's publications, outlining research processes of the Stirling County study.

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.

Stirling report #95 - Statistical report on the degree to which field operations conformed to rigid sampling specifications / by G. E. McCreary and J. M. Upson

MS-13-86, Box 29, Folder 18
File

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of a report on research methods and data sampling in the Stirling County study.

Stirling report #97 - Handbook for field workers: Stirling County project

MS-13-86, Box 29, Folder 19
File
1952

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains a handbook for field researches in the Stirling County study.

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

MS-13-86, Box 29, Folder 2
Item
June 30, 1957

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

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

Stirling report #98 - Introduction to technical handbook of social science survey, 1952

MS-13-86, Box 29, Folder 20
File
1952

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of a guide to the development of a survey questionnaire as part of the Stirling County study.

Stirling report #101 - Observations on methodology in community research

MS-13-86, Box 29, Folder 21
File

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of a report on research methodology in the Stirling County study, written by Seymour Parker, Charles Hughes, and Robert Rapoport.

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

MS-13-86, Box 29, Folder 3
Item
June 30, 1958

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

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

Stirling report # - Behavioral science information

MS-13-86, Box 29, Folder 4
File

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains a 5-part report on behavioral science theories and approaches.

Stirling report #SP8 - A pilot study for a program designed to improve the mental health of a community

MS-13-86, Box 29, Folder 5
File
1959

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains a proposal for a community mental health improvement project following ten years of participation in the Stirling County study.

Stirling report # - A proposal for research into the measurement of health in populations

MS-13-86, Box 29, Folder 6
File

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains a research proposal for further study in Stirling County, written by Alexander Leighton, Morton Beiser, Robert C. Benfari, and Jane M. Murphy.

Stirling report # - Chapter 2 : cosmos in the Gallup city dump / by Alexander Leighton