Alexander H. Leighton
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American psychiatrist and sociologist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Alexander H. Leighton was a sociologist and psychiatrist of dual citizenship . He is best known for his work on the Stirling County Study and his contributions to the field of psychiatric epidemiology. Leighton died at the age of 99 at his home in Digby, Nova Scotia.
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- Affective disorders and mortality. A general population study. (1987) (348)
- A 40-year perspective on the prevalence of depression: the Stirling County Study. (2000) (316)
- Depression and anxiety in relation to social status. A prospective epidemiologic study. (1991) (223)
- Cigarette smoking in relation to depression: historical trends from the Stirling County Study. (2003) (184)
- My name is legion (1960) (149)
- Psychiatric findings of the Stirling Country Study. (1963) (130)
- Anxiety and depression: a 40‐year perspective on relationships regarding prevalence, distribution, and comorbidity (2004) (117)
- Poverty and Social Change (1965) (112)
- Diagnosis and outcome: depression and anxiety in a general population (1986) (107)
- Incidence of depression in the Stirling County Study: historical and comparative perspectives (2000) (105)
- Stability of prevalence. Depression and anxiety disorders. (1984) (104)
- My name is legion : foundations for a theory of man in relation to culture (1960) (87)
- A comparison of diagnostic interviews for depression in the Stirling County study: challenges for psychiatric epidemiology. (2000) (82)
- Incidence of depression and anxiety: the Stirling County Study. (1988) (80)
- The Governing of Men. (1945) (68)
- Explorations in social psychiatry (1957) (66)
- Further explorations in social psychiatry (1976) (57)
- Notes on Eskimo Patterns of Suicide (1955) (52)
- Prodromes of Depression and Anxiety (1989) (49)
- Mortality associated with depression (2008) (49)
- Psychiatric Disorder Among the Yoruba: A Report from the Cornell-Aro Mental Health Research Project in the Western Region, Nigeria. (1964) (48)
- Approaches to Cross-Cultural Psychiatry. (1966) (45)
- People of cove and woodlot;: Communities from the viewpoint of social psychiatry (1960) (44)
- Multiple informants: mortality associated with psychiatric disorders in the Stirling County Study. (2001) (44)
- Then and Now: Some Notes on the Interaction of Person and Social Environment (1984) (38)
- Validity in Mental Health Surveys * (1966) (38)
- Incidence of major depression: prediction from subthreshold categories in the Stirling County Study. (2002) (36)
- Psychiatric disorder in a Swedish and a Canadian community: an exploratory study. (1971) (35)
- Self-disparagement as feature and forerunner of depression: findings from the Stirling County Study. (2002) (33)
- Cultures as a causative of mental disorder. (1961) (31)
- Human relations in a changing world (1949) (30)
- Caring for Mentally Ill People: Psychological and Social Barriers in Historical Context (1982) (29)
- Relations over time between psychiatric and somatic disorders: the Stirling County Study. (1992) (29)
- Culture and Psychiatry * (1981) (23)
- Mortality risk and psychiatric disorders. Results of a general physician survey. (1989) (23)
- SOME DIMENSIONS OF PSYCHONEUROTIC BEHAVIOR IN AN URBAN SAMPLE (1972) (23)
- Human Relations in a Changing World: Observations on the Uses of the Social Sciences (1951) (22)
- The governing of men : general principles and recommendations based on experience at a Japanese relocation camp (1945) (22)
- Nature of Pathology: The Character of Danger Implicit in Functional Impairment (1997) (20)
- PSYCHIATRIC DISORDER IN WEST AFRICA. (1963) (20)
- The Navaho Door: An Introduction To Navaho Life (1944) (18)
- Identifying depression and anxiety in a 40‐year epidemiological investigation: the Stirling County study (1998) (17)
- Primary prevention of psychiatric disorders (1987) (17)
- Research directions in psychiatric epidemiology (1979) (17)
- Anxiety: its role in the history of psychiatric epidemiology (2008) (17)
- The Navaho Door (1944) (15)
- Psychiatric disorder and social environment; an outline for a frame of reference. (1955) (14)
- Notes on the Relations of Beavers to One Another and to the Muskrat (1933) (13)
- Studying the incidence of depression: an ‘interval’ effect (2000) (12)
- Mortality risk and psychiatric disorders (1989) (11)
- CASE: COMPUTER ASSIGNED SYMPTOM EVALUATION: An Instrument For Psychiatric Epidemiological Application (1972) (11)
- Some Notes on Preventive Psychiatry * (1967) (11)
- Is social environment a cause of psychiatric disorder? (1967) (10)
- Human Relations In A Changing World: Observations On The Use Of The Social Sciences (2012) (10)
- The Erosion of Norms* (1974) (10)
- A Working Concept of Morale for Flight Surgeons (1943) (9)
- Probe: a computer instrument for field surveys of psychiatric disorder. (1970) (8)
- Improving mental health through community action (2005) (8)
- THE TALKING PICTURES IN PSYCHIATRIC TEACHING AND RESEARCH (1942) (7)
- The manifestation of types of psychological states in an urban sample. (1974) (7)
- SOCIAL scientist. (1953) (6)
- Applied research and pure research. (1946) (6)
- Social science and psychiatric epidemiology. A difficult relationship (1994) (6)
- Notes on the Beaver's Individuality and Mental Characteristics (1932) (6)
- Community mental health and information underload (1990) (5)
- Exploration in Social Psychiatry (1958) (5)
- Chapter 5: Repeated investigations of prevalence: The Stirling County Study (1989) (5)
- Some propositions regarding the relationship of sociocultural integration and disintegration to mental health. (1968) (5)
- An Introduction To Social Psychiatry (1961) (5)
- SOME TYPES OF UNEASINESS AND FEAR IN A NAVAHO INDIAN COMMUNITY (1942) (5)
- Contributions of Epidemiology to Psychiatric Thought (1990) (4)
- SOCIAL PSYCHIATRY AND THE CONCEPT OF CAUSE (1966) (4)
- Problems of today. (1949) (3)
- Barriers to adequate care for mentally ill people. (1984) (3)
- Behavioral sciences and health. (1973) (3)
- Training Social Scientists for Post-War Conditions (1942) (3)
- Reducing disability in mood disorders and schizophrenia. (1992) (3)
- Notes on the Behavior Of Norwegian Beaver (1935) (3)
- A Field Method for Teaching Applied Anthropology (1951) (3)
- Elements of Psychotherapy in Navaho Religion† (1941) (3)
- Interview with Alec Leighton (1989) (2)
- The etiology of diagnosis. (1969) (2)
- Community Mental Health and Information Underload (2004) (2)
- Gregorio, the Hand Trembler: A Psychobiological Personality Study of a Navaho Indian (2012) (2)
- The other side of the coin. (1971) (1)
- Some Observations on the Prevalence of Mental Illness in Contrasting Communities (1967) (1)
- Psychiatry and applied anthropology in psychological warfare against Japan (1946) (1)
- The therapeutic process in cross-cultural perspective - a symposium. Fragments from a Navaho ceremonial. (1968) (1)
- THE LEGEND OF THE FABULOUS ZOO (1975) (1)
- Social science and values. (1949) (1)
- BRINGING CLINICAL SERVICES TO UNDRDEVELOPED COUNTRIES AND CONTRIBUTION TO BASIC KNOWLEDGE THAT CAN BE EXPECTED FROM SUCH ENTERPRISES (1962) (1)
- The Problem of Cultural Distortion (1965) (1)
- PSYCHIATRIC DISORDER. THE PROBLEM OF CULTURAL DISTORTION. (1965) (1)
- A Porcupine Throws Quills (1926) (1)
- The Japanese Family in America (1943) (1)
- 16. Individuals under Stress (1945) (0)
- Adolf Meyer and the social sciences. (1951) (0)
- The policy maker. (1949) (0)
- Evidence-Based Psychiatry (2002) (0)
- 4 THE INDIAN SERVICE (1944) (0)
- 2. Beginning of Poston (1945) (0)
- 8 NAVAHO LIVES (1944) (0)
- Dr. Leighton Replies (1969) (0)
- 12. End of the Strike (1945) (0)
- Japanese home-front morale. (1949) (0)
- 15. Fundamental Postulate (1945) (0)
- SPECIAL REPORTS: THE FIRST PAN-AFRICAN PSYCHIATRIC CONFERENCE (1962) (0)
- Introduction: The Problem (1945) (0)
- Japanese military morale. (1949) (0)
- The Compass and the Troubled Sea (1978) (0)
- Culture and Mental Health (1962) (0)
- 7. Social Organization (1945) (0)
- Dynamic forces in international relations. (1949) (0)
- The Council on National Affairs and Social Issues (1971) (0)
- Examples of analysis. (1949) (0)
- 9 LOOKING FORWARD (1944) (0)
- 5 NAVAHO WAYS AND WHITE MAN’S MEDICINE — IN THE HOSPITAL (1944) (0)
- Social Psychiatry, vol. 1 (1975) (0)
- 7 A SPEECH ON HEALTH (1944) (0)
- Book Review: Labor Relations and Human Relations (1949) (0)
- The editors interview Alexander H. Leighton. (1981) (0)
- 10. Beginning of the Strike (1945) (0)
- 1 LOOKING BACKWARD (1944) (0)
- 6 NAVAHO WAYS AND WHITE MAN’S MEDICINE — IN OUT-PATIENT WORK (1944) (0)
- Problems of organization. (1949) (0)
- LIST OF REFERENCES FOR PARTS I AND II (1945) (0)
- Human Nature and Government Policy (1948) (0)
- 13. Self-Management after the Strike (1945) (0)
- CHAPTER| T» WAR» AN INTEGRATE* THEORY «F PERSONALITY 1 By Wsje Bronfenbrenner, Pfe9 (1951) (0)
- : Culture, Psychiatry and Human Values; The Methods and Values of a Social Psychiatry . Marvin K. Opler. (1956) (0)
- Moving Pictures as an Aid in Community Development (1972) (0)
- The Turkey Vulture's Eyes (1928) (0)
- Four papers related to the challenge to psychiatry in a changing world: a symposium. Introduction. (1966) (0)
- 17. Systems of Belief under Stress (1945) (0)
- Methods of analysis. (1949) (0)
- Diagnostic certainty or uncertainty and its impact on the determination of prevalence rates. (1990) (0)
- The mental health of the American Indian. Introduction. (1968) (0)
- 18. Social Organization under Stress (1945) (0)
- 8. Social Disorganization (1945) (0)
- 5. Community Planning (1945) (0)
- 6. Self-Government (1945) (0)
- 2 ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIETY (1944) (0)
- NAVAHO KINSHIP TERMS (1944) (0)
- Difficulties of application. (1949) (0)
- 4. Early Days (1945) (0)
- Cultural Change and Psychiatric Disorder (2009) (0)
- Trends in modern American society (1962) (0)
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