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.
Item consists of a facsimile of correspondence submitted by A.P. Reid to the March 1903 issue of the Maritime Medical News (Vol. XV, No. 3), dated January 30, 1903, on the topic of a Jamaican asylum.
Item is a letter written to his father from Alexander Leighton during his residency at Johns Hopkins. The letter addresses his sister Gertrude's mental health and details about equipment for a film project.
File contains manuscripts for unpublished papers: "Barriers to the care of mental illness," "Antecedents of the mental health movement in Atlantic Canada : some implications for today," "The psychobiological orientation," and "Psychiatric diagnosis in life science perspective" by Alexander Leighton. Also includes related correspondence and review feedback forms.
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?"
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."
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.
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.
Series contains documents related to the Japanese-American resettlement study and the Japanese bombing surveys. Also contains correspondence, reports, and memoranda related to the Foreign Morale Analysis Division and psychological warfare.
File contains 4 manuscripts: "Mental health promotion in the perspective of North American psychiatry : a historical review" by Norman Dain, Gerald Grob, and Alexander H. Leighton, "Psychiatry in nineteenth-century United States : the rise and decline of moral treatment, a reevaluation" by Norman Dain, "Mental health policy in modern America: myth and reality" by Gerald N. Grob, and "Implications for mental health promotion" by Alexander H. Leighton.
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."
Series contains materials related to the development of Alexander Leighton's book on the prevention of mental illness. Documents include manuscripts, correspondence, research notes, and copies of past publications.
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.
File contains correspondence between Alexander Leighton and several different hospitals, clinics, universities, research institutions, and psychiatric associations regarding the development of psychiatric epidemiology programming.
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.
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."
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