Alexander H Leighton
Biographic Data
| ID | 130109 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alexander H Leighton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alexander H |
| FAMILY NAME | Leighton |
| SIGNATURE | LEIGHTON A H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Dalhousie University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 41 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 124 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 41 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1942 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Community Mental Health and Information Underload
Incidence of depression and anxiety: The Stirling County Study
Prevalence studies in psychiatric epidemiology out-number incidence investigations by a wide margin. This report gives descriptive information about the incidence of depression and anxiety disorders in a general population. Using data gathered in a 16-year follow-up of an adult sample selected as part of the Stirling County Study (Canada), the incidence of these types of disorders was found to be approximately nine cases per 1,000 persons per yea…
Then and Now: Some Notes on the Interaction of Person and Social Environment
0 NE O F THE THINGS that makes me extremely sensible of honor of being asked to give this lecture is fact that had privilege of knowing Malinowski during last few years of his life. As look back now feel immensely indebted to his personal counsel as well as to his writings. Our meeting was in autumn of 1937 or 1938 when he came to give a talk in Department of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins. was then a resident in psychiatry and delegated to greet hi…
Barriers to adequate care for mentally ill people
Improving mental health through community action
Transcultural Research in Mental Health: Volume II of Mental Health Research in Asia and the Pacific
From “Psychiatric Problems at the Buddhist Priest’s Hospital in Thailand” to “Political Dimensions of Psychiatric Thought,” Transcultural Research in Mental Health emphasizes the international and interdisciplinary facets of mental health. From fieldwork to philosophy the approach is as diverse, exciting, and far-reaching as the actual problems and orientations of cross cultural research in this area
Moving Pictures as an Aid in Community Development
The main focus of this paper is to describe the use of moving pictures as an adjunct to a program of social change.A community development program in a rural disintegrated neighborhood in the Canadian Maritimes was the setting in which a change effort by the authors was taking place. Our previous research plus the studies of Lewis and Haggstrom led us to formulate four characteristics of the neighborhood which were defined as targets for change: …
Psychiatric disorder in a Swedish and a Canadian community: An exploratory study
Approaches to Cross-Cultural Psychiatry
The Character of Danger: Psychiatric Symptoms in Selected Communities
Psychiatric Disorder Among the Yoruba: A Report from the Cornell-Aro Mental Health Research Project in the Western Region, Nigeria
Mental Health in the Metropolis: The Midtown Manhattan Study
An Introduction to Social Psychiatry
People of Cove and Woodlot: Communities from the Viewpoint of Social Psychiatry
My Name is Legion
My name is legion: Foundations for a Theory of Man in Relation to Culture.
Exploration in Social Psychiatry
Explorations in social psychiatry
Culture, Psychiatry and Human Values; The Methods and Values of a Social Psychiatry . Marvin K. Opler
Culture, Psychiatry and Human Values; The Methods and Values of a Social Psychiatry Marvin K. Opler
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Culture, Psychiatry and Human Values; The Methods and Values of a Social Psychiatry. By Marvin K. Opler. Spring-field. Charles C. Thomas, 1956. xii, 243 pp. $6.00. Alexander H. Leighton Alexander H. Leighton Cornell University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 4, Issue 2, 1 October 1956, Page 181, https://doi.org/10.2307/799128 Published:…
Notes on Eskimo Patterns of Suicide
Human Relations in a Changing World: Observations on the Uses of the Social Sciences
A Field Method for Teaching Applied Anthropology
Attempts to teach applied anthropology to students of administration, education or technology encounter at least two major difficulties: the problem of making the subject matter alive and "real" in a classroom; and pressure to do this in a short space of time. With the growth of Technical Cooperation Administration ("Point Four"), UNESCO and similar programs, the need to provide such training for administrators, educators, and technological speci…
Human Relations in a Changing World: Observations on the Use of the Social Sciences
Labor Relations and Human Relations
My name is legion: Foundations for a Theory of Man in Relation to Culture.
The Governing of Men
Notes on Eskimo Patterns of Suicide
Approaches to Cross-Cultural Psychiatry
People of Cove and Woodlot: Communities from the Viewpoint of Social Psychiatry
Mental Health in the Metropolis: The Midtown Manhattan Study
Human Relations in a Changing World: Observations on the Uses of the Social Sciences
Assessing Public Opinion in a Dislocated Community
Journal Article ASSESSING PUBLIC OPINION IN A DISLOCATED COMMUNITY Get access LIEUTENANT ALEXANDER H. LEIGHTON AND ASSOCIATES LIEUTENANT ALEXANDER H. LEIGHTON AND ASSOCIATES Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 7, Issue 4, WINTER 1943, Pages 652–668, https://doi.org/10.1086/265650 Published: 01 January 1943
Psychiatric Disorder Among the Yoruba: A Report from the Cornell-Aro Mental Health Research Project in the Western Region, Nigeria
Applied" Research and "Pure" Research
The Navaho Door
Human Relations in a Changing World: Observations on the Use of the Social Sciences
Community Mental Health and Information Underload
Psychiatric disorder in a Swedish and a Canadian community: An exploratory study
Then and Now: Some Notes on the Interaction of Person and Social Environment
0 NE O F THE THINGS that makes me extremely sensible of honor of being asked to give this lecture is fact that had privilege of knowing Malinowski during last few years of his life. As look back now feel immensely indebted to his personal counsel as well as to his writings. Our meeting was in autumn of 1937 or 1938 when he came to give a talk in Department of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins. was then a resident in psychiatry and delegated to greet hi…
Improving mental health through community action
A Field Method for Teaching Applied Anthropology
Attempts to teach applied anthropology to students of administration, education or technology encounter at least two major difficulties: the problem of making the subject matter alive and "real" in a classroom; and pressure to do this in a short space of time. With the growth of Technical Cooperation Administration ("Point Four"), UNESCO and similar programs, the need to provide such training for administrators, educators, and technological speci…
The Governing of Men
Incidence of depression and anxiety: The Stirling County Study
Prevalence studies in psychiatric epidemiology out-number incidence investigations by a wide margin. This report gives descriptive information about the incidence of depression and anxiety disorders in a general population. Using data gathered in a 16-year follow-up of an adult sample selected as part of the Stirling County Study (Canada), the incidence of these types of disorders was found to be approximately nine cases per 1,000 persons per yea…
Culture, Psychiatry and Human Values; The Methods and Values of a Social Psychiatry Marvin K. Opler
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Culture, Psychiatry and Human Values; The Methods and Values of a Social Psychiatry. By Marvin K. Opler. Spring-field. Charles C. Thomas, 1956. xii, 243 pp. $6.00. Alexander H. Leighton Alexander H. Leighton Cornell University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 4, Issue 2, 1 October 1956, Page 181, https://doi.org/10.2307/799128 Published:…
Some Types of Uneasiness and Fear in a Navaho Indian Community
Training Social Scientists for Post-War Conditions
Although the various social sciences are to a large extent harmfully separated by the boundaries of their disciplines, there are some workers who recognize the essential oneness of the material in all studies of human behavior and relationship, and the need for mutual sharing and coordinated effort in training and research. The existence of the Social Science Research Council is an example of such a trend. The journal Psychiatry, "addressed not a…
Some Types of Uneasiness and Fear in a Navaho Indian Community
Assessing Public Opinion in a Dislocated Community
Journal Article ASSESSING PUBLIC OPINION IN A DISLOCATED COMMUNITY Get access LIEUTENANT ALEXANDER H. LEIGHTON AND ASSOCIATES LIEUTENANT ALEXANDER H. LEIGHTON AND ASSOCIATES Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 7, Issue 4, WINTER 1943, Pages 652–668, https://doi.org/10.1086/265650 Published: 01 January 1943
The Navaho Door
Governing of Men
Commander Leighton is a psychiatrist and anthropologist who was assigned to go to the Japanese Relocation Center at Poston, Arizona, and "apply the methods of social science" to that community-find out in terms of human relationships what was working well and why, what was going wrong and why, and attempt to draw general principles from that experience. He fulfilled his mission brilliantly, and his manuscript account was immediately hailed by tho…
Basic Social Science Applied to Administration
The Governing of Men
The Governing of Men
Prejudice: Japanese-Americans, Symbol of Racial Intolerance
Psychiatry and applied anthropology in psychological warfare against Japan
The Governing of Men
The governing of Men
Applied" Research and "Pure" Research
The Navaho Door
Human Nature and Government Policy
Human Relations in a Changing World: Observations on the Use of the Social Sciences
Labor Relations and Human Relations
Human Relations in a Changing World
Human Relations in a Changing World: Observations on the Uses of the Social Sciences
A Field Method for Teaching Applied Anthropology
Attempts to teach applied anthropology to students of administration, education or technology encounter at least two major difficulties: the problem of making the subject matter alive and "real" in a classroom; and pressure to do this in a short space of time. With the growth of Technical Cooperation Administration ("Point Four"), UNESCO and similar programs, the need to provide such training for administrators, educators, and technological speci…
Notes on Eskimo Patterns of Suicide
Culture, Psychiatry and Human Values; The Methods and Values of a Social Psychiatry . Marvin K. Opler
Culture, Psychiatry and Human Values; The Methods and Values of a Social Psychiatry Marvin K. Opler
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Culture, Psychiatry and Human Values; The Methods and Values of a Social Psychiatry. By Marvin K. Opler. Spring-field. Charles C. Thomas, 1956. xii, 243 pp. $6.00. Alexander H. Leighton Alexander H. Leighton Cornell University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 4, Issue 2, 1 October 1956, Page 181, https://doi.org/10.2307/799128 Published:…
Explorations in social psychiatry
Exploration in Social Psychiatry
Psychology (20 works) · Sociology (18 works) · Political science (16 works) · Psychiatry (15 works) · Mental health (11 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Law (7 works) · History (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Medicine (5 works)