Item is a videocassette with an interview. The interviewee received electroshock treatment for anxiety, depression, and paranoia. The treatment tested the effects of neurotransmission and effects of "shocking" lobotomies. The tape was requested by Dr. Jones from the Department of Psychiatry.
Item is a videocassette of a videotaped psychiatry session. The session appears to be mock, although it could be genuine. The set-up is a two-shot of a therapist and a patient. The video was used in the Dalhousie Medical School curriculum and was requested by Dr. P.E. Reynolds from the Department of Psychiatry.
Item is a videocassette of a videotaped psychiatry session. The session appears to be mock, although it could be genuine. The set-up is a two-shot of a therapist and a patient. The video was used in the Dalhousie Medical School curriculum and was requested by Dr. P.E. Reynolds from the Department of Psychiatry.
Item is a videocassette of a classroom film by McGraw-Hill Contemporary Films. The video is a documentary with a real person as the subject. The video was used in the Dalhousie Medical School curriculum and was requested by Dr. J. Curtis from the Department of Psychiatry.
Item is a videocassette of a lecture on post-partum depression, recorded in Theatre B of the Tupper Building. The video was requested by Dr. Pierce from the Department of Psychiatry and was used in the Dalhousie Medical School curriculum.
Item is a videocassette of a narrated documentary, featuring the Nova Scotia Hospital in Dartmouth. It is part of the "New Beginnings" television program and was requested by Sylvie Gibeau. It was used as part of the Dalhousie Medical School curriculum.
File contains 7 labelled videocassettes: Clinical Conference June 24, 1993 — Psychiatric Emergencies; Clinical Conference Nov 1994 — Railways, Pastry Cooks, Witches and other Delusions (Dr. J. Meagher); Clinical Conference Sept 1995 — Seniors' Mental Health Service Day Program; Clinical Conference Nov 24, 1995 — Delusional Depression in Late Life with Dr. D. Roberts and Dr. J. Walker; Clinical Conference Jan 19, 1996 — Presentation of a Cyclic Mood Disorder in a Young man with Autism and Mental Retardation; Clinical Conference Jan 26, 1996 — A Pillar of Society: The Life of Simeon the Stylite (Presenter Dr. Joseph Meager); and Management of Behavioural Disturbance in the Demented Elderly (Dr. Richard Goldberg, MD).
Item is a photograph the speakers at the annual meeting. Left to right: Dr. R.J. Weil; Harold Porter; Dr. John Pratten; Dr. Daniel Blair; and Dr. Rhodes Chalk. Photographs taken by Wamboldt-Waterfield Photography Limited. See the Mail-Star Sept 20, 1974.
Item is a photograph the speakers at the annual meeting. Left to right: Dr. Douglas J. McLean; Dr. Robert Parkin; Dr. Nathan B. Epstein; Dr. Jerome Frank. Photographs taken by Wamboldt-Waterfield Photography Limited. See the Mail-Star Sept 20, 1974.
File contains a cassette tape recording of Barbara Hinds' interview with Dr. Alexander Leighton, a psychiatrist. The interview is about an investigation into the incidence of mental illness in western Nova Scotia. This is the fourth in a series of four interviews. The file also contains two typed scripts of intros and outros for two interviews with Dr. Leighton.
File consists of video recordings and a transcription of an interview with John Paterson. The interview was conducted by Anna Quon at the Gorsebrook Institute on the Saint Mary`s University Campus on October 19, 2010. This was the fifth interview conducted as part of the Our Voices Matter Project. The interview touches on a wide range of topics, including John's childhood in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, experiences with anxiety and depression, and other aspects of his personal life.
File contains correspondence with Adolf Meyer. Also includes summaries of recording instruments, synopses of psychiatric cases, a transcript of "Mental health film," and transcripts of conferences and conversations.
File contains letters written between friends and colleagues Theodore Lidz and Alexander Leighton, beginning during the Second World War and continuing until 1951.
File is loosely organized into two sections: Nova Scotia beaver and Norway beaver. Both sections contain correspondence to and from government officials, biologists, academics, and industry consultants regarding research for and publication of Alexander Leighton's study on beaver mental characteristics. The Norway section also contains excerpts from Norwegian newspapers. There is also a set of handwritten notes titled "Outline for study of the Beaver: D. Cross & A.H. Leighton."
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 a research proposal for further study in Stirling County, written by Alexander Leighton, Morton Beiser, Robert C. Benfari, and Jane M. Murphy.
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.
File contains a report from a workshop in Augusta, Maine regarding the sociocultural factors and psychiatric epidemiology of the Stirling County study.
File contains charts and datasets tracking demographic, social, and psychiatric statistics from Yoruba and Stirling Country respondents. Also contains notes on and memos regarding HOS coding for studying the role of women. Includes analysis cards for Stirling and Yoruba social and psychiatric data and master lists for sample coordination.