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Mental health and social environment : [manuscript]

MS-13-86, Box 30, Folder 19
File
[195-]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File includes a draft manuscript possibly for the book published as My Name is Legion: Foundations for a Theory of Man in Relation to Culture.

Beaver study correspondence

MS-13-86, Box 32, Folder 1
File
1931 - 1933

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

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."

Seminars on dynamic sociology

MS-13-86, Box 101, Folder 5
File
1938

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains reports and lecture scripts from the 1938 seminars on dynamic sociology.

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.

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.

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.

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 #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 #256 - A preliminary description and analysis of the social class system of Stirling Town / Dr. A.H. Leighton and Bernard S. Cohn

MS-13-86, Box 30, Folder 4
File
1951

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains a report on social class analysis for the Stirling County study.

Stirling County study list of categories

MS-13-86, Box 30, Folder 5
File
June 1951

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains a list of data categories for the Stirling County study.

Stirling report #35 - meetings at Cornell for planning the social science program of the Stirling County study

MS-13-86, Box 29, Folder 9
File
1951

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains meeting minutes for sessions at Cornell regarding further developments and programming of the Stirling County studies.

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.

Report #240 - Stirling County place names

MS-13-86, Box 30, Folder 18
File
1952

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

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.

Statement of project

MS-13-86, Box 32, Folder 4
File
[1953?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains three project proposals for psychiatric research studies.

Stirling report #131 - Research design of the Stirling County study / G.E. McCreary

MS-13-86, Box 30, Folder 2
File
1953

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File also contains a four-page memo (STI 31a) by McCreary regarding further considerations of the present research and comments of future research.

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.

Stirling report #128 - Certain problems of data analysis, family life survey, Stirling County project / Alexander H.Leighton, Project Director

MS-13-86, Box 30, Folder 3
File
[1953?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains a report on family data analysis for the Stirling County study.

Homosexuality / by Thomas A. C. Rennie

MS-13-86, Box 32, Folder 15
File
1953

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains a manuscript for a conference paper. File also contains letters regarding the editing and publication of the paper.

Stirling report #141 - Social science unit meetings July 8-14th, 1953

MS-13-86, Box 30, Folder 1
File
1953

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains a report on a science unit meeting for the Stirling County Study.

Report #241 - Method book : public relations, 1953-1954, vol. 1

MS-13-86, Box 31, Folder 3
File
1953

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

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 #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 #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.

Report #241 - Method book : public relations, 1954 - June 30, 1955, vol. 2

MS-13-86, Box 31, Folder 4
File
1954

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

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.

Recurrent psychotic attacks accompanying menstruation in a 13-year-old girl / by James F. Masterson and Thomas A. C. Rennie

MS-13-86, Box 32, Folder 14
File
[1954?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains two copies of the article written by Masterson and Rennie.

The psychosocial position : a preparatory statement / by Thomas A. C. Rennie

MS-13-86, Box 32, Folder 11
File
1954

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of the script for a presentation at the Conference on Convergence of Viewpoints on the Causation of Mental Diseases.

Introduction for Thomas Ling's book

MS-13-86, Box 32, Folder 12
File
1953 - 1954

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

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.

Stirling report #201 - Stirling County study in community development

MS-13-86, Box 30, Folder 13
File
1955

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Stirling report #192 - A proposal for a personality study and mental health assessment by the use of psychological tests of typical residence of a small town / W.H.D. Vernon

MS-13-86, Box 30, Folder 16
File
1955

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Report #244 - Submissions and reports to province and Ottawa, volume 1

MS-13-86, Box 30, Folder 17
File
[1955?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

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.

Research grant application for Cornell-Aro Mental Health Research Project

MS-13-86, Box 1, Folder 2
File
1959

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains a research grant application submitted to the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare to request funding for the Cornell-Aro Mental Health Research Project in Nigeria.

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.

1959 trip to Nigeria

MS-13-86, Box 1, Folder 8
File
1959

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains documents relating to Alexander Leighton's 1959 trip to Nigeria. Includes a photograph, several bundles of research notes, schedules, graphic materials, and patient medical notes. Includes an article from the New York Times on the Nigerian election, and no. 10 of the Western Nigerian Illustrated quarterly publication featuring an article about psychiatric treatment at the Aro Hospital. Also includes an envelope labelled 'thought disorder pills' containing five spherical pills.

Notes on data sampling considerations in Nigeria

MS-13-86, Box 1, Folder 11
File
1959 - 1960

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains guidelines and suggestions for selecting diverse and unbiased data samples and determining the value of data collected.

Common medical diseases in Yoruba villages / by Sylvia von Severus

MS-13-86, Box 12, Folder 7
File
1960

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of a report by von Severus on the physical health conditions prevalent in Yoruba village to determine their eligibility in the 1961 Cornell-Aro study.

Speech by Alexander Leighton upon arrival in Nigeria

MS-13-86, Box 1, Folder 7
File
[1960?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains an English-Yoruba script for a speech delivered by Alexander Leighton upon his arrival in Nigeria.

The pulse, vol. XXIII, no. 4

MS-13-86, Box 1, Folder 6
File
1961

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains an 8-page stapled publication of the New York Hosptial Cornell Medical Centre's bimonthly newsletter. Features an article about Alexander Leighton's Cornell-Aro Mental Health Research Project.

Practice social data questionnaire for Cornell-Aro Mental Health Research Project

MS-13-86, Box 1, Folder 16
File
[1961?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains one copy of the final fourth draft of the social data questionnaire for community respondents. Questionnaire is in both English and Yoruba and has been completed by an individual subject.

Drafts of social data and psychiatric questionnaires for Cornell-Aro Mental Health Research Project

MS-13-86, Box 1, Folder 17
File
1957 - 1961

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains early drafts of the community respondent social data and psychiatric questionnaires and a survery from Aro Hospital concerning displaced and detribalised people. Also contains a memo justifying the questions used and an appendix containing a blank copy of the final draft of the questionnaire.

Final seventh draft of psychiatric questionnaire for Cornell-Aro Mental Health Research Project

MS-13-86, Box 2, Folder 2
File
[1961?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains one blank copy of the final seventh draft of the psychiatric questionnaire for community respondents.

Demographic data on hospital patients

MS-13-86, Box 10, Folder 12
File
1961

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of notes on the socioeconomic and demographic data of hospital patients.

Reliability analysis between psychiatrists

MS-13-86, Box 10, Folder 14
File
[1961?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains an appendix (Appendix F) outlining procedures in comparing psychiatric evaluators' thought processes and conclusions surrounding the mental health of respondents of the Cornell-Aro study. File also includes information on analysis coding and a chart outlining mental health symptom statistics.

Memos on RIDIT analysis of 1961 data

MS-13-86, Box 11, Folder 16
File
1961

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of memos discussing data analysis and RIDIT values for the Nigerian sample.

Stirling report #464 - Chapter v : how sick is sick?

MS-13-86, Box 30, Folder 6
File
1961

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains a manuscript for a chapter in a book about the Stirling County study.

Memos on the organization and filing of data for the Cornell-Aro Mental Health Research Project

MS-13-86, Box 1, Folder 4
File
1961

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of two memos containing an index of Nigerian research materials and suggestions for their organization and storage.

Progress report for Cornell-Aro Mental Health Research Project

MS-13-86, Box 1, Folder 5
File
1961

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains an interim progress report for the Cornell-Aro Mental Health Research Project with reference to the National Institute of Health grant M-4506.

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