File consists of a script or text for an introductory lecture by Rhoda Omosunlola Johnston on the subject of Nigerian superstitions and physical health.
File contains a draft of Warren Miller's study and several pages of related research notes. Also contains a memo regarding comments and proposed edits to the draft, and a letter to Miller from Laurel Hodgden regarding the study "Psychiatric disorder among the Yoruba."
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.
Subseries consists of revised analysis and evaluation materials for the 1961 and 1963 studies. Also includes correspondence on the projects and field notes with great detail on respondents' interviews and evaluations.
File contains materials from a meeting on the Yoruba studies, including charts and datasets demonstrating psychiatrist's agreement analysis and findings and ABCD analysis.
File contains tables, graphs, and charts comparing Nigerian and Stirling County data. Also contains notes and thoughts on analytics and data significance.
Subseries consists of datasets, research notes, and statistical analyses comparing psychiatric data from the Cornell-Aro Nigerian study to that from Stirling County and the Inuit communities of St. Lawrence Island in Alaska.
File contains materials comparing and analyzing the differences between the role of Yoruba and Elmira women. Includes research notes, answer scales and criteria, socioeconomic and employment data, family dynamic information, and statistical analyses.
File contains a video and partial transcript of an interview with Wayne Schnare. The interview was conducted by Susan Kilbride Roper at the Belmont House on September 7, 2010. This was the third interview conducted as part of the Our Voices Matter Project. The interview touches on a wide range of topics, including Wayne's childhood in Middleton, Nova Scotia, experiences with anxiety and depression, and other aspects of his personal life.
File contains videos of an interview with Shan MacDonald. The interview was conducted by Anna Quon at the Belmont House in Darmouth, Nova Scotia on September 29, 2010. This was the eleventh interview conducted as part of the Our Voices Matter Project. The interview touches on a wide range of topics, including Shan's childhood in Victoria, British Columbia, her family life, experiences with manic episodes and depression, and other aspects of her personal life.
Item consists of handwritten correspondence from Owen Bell Jones to Archibald MacMechan, dated March 7, 1923, from Ste-Agathe-des-Monts, Quebec, frankly discussing his struggles with his recovery amid fears he is "slowly becoming a wreck; [often] feeling useless and frightened" and angered by not being told his poor prognosis and difficulty of recovery back in 1917.
File contains gay help line training session materials, including recommended readings and community resources, training schedules, one help line training manual, and one booklet of materials relating to crisis intervention.
File contains a report from a workshop in Augusta, Maine regarding the sociocultural factors and psychiatric epidemiology of the Stirling County study.
