Dorothea Leighton

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PhD Anthropology Columbia University

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According to Wikipedia, Dorothea Cross Leighton was an American social psychiatrist and a founder of the field of medical anthropology. Leighton held faculty positions at Cornell University and the University of North Carolina and she was the founding president of the Society for Medical Anthropology. She and her husband, Alexander Leighton, wrote The Navajo Door, which has been described as the first written work in applied medical anthropology.

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The character of danger (1963) (257)
The character of danger : psychiatric symptoms in selected communities (1965) (228)
Psychiatric findings of the Stirling Country Study. (1963) (130)
Children of the people (1947) (118)
The Little Community. Viewpoints for the Study of a Human Whole (1956) (70)
Crestwood Heights: A Study of the Culture of Suburban Life (1957) (68)
The distribution of psychiatric symptoms in a small town. (1956) (39)
Validity in Mental Health Surveys * (1966) (38)
Children of the People (The Navaho Individual and His Development) (1947) (23)
Children of the people: The Navaho individual and His development (1948) (19)
People of the Middle Place: A Study of the Zuni Indians (1966) (18)
The Navaho Door: An Introduction To Navaho Life (1944) (18)
The Navaho Door (1944) (15)
The Collection and Evaluation of Data (1965) (12)
Measuring stress levels in school children as a program-monitoring device. (1972) (10)
THE SOCIAL DIMENSIONS OF MENTAL ILLNESS, ALCOHOLISM AND DRUG DEPENDENCE. By Don Martindale and Edith Martindale. Westport: Greenwood, 1972. 330 pp. $12.50 (1973) (8)
As I Knew Them: Navajo Women in 1940. (1982) (8)
Cultural determinants of behavior: a neglected area. (1972) (5)
SOME TYPES OF UNEASINESS AND FEAR IN A NAVAHO INDIAN COMMUNITY (1942) (5)
Community Development as a Therapeutic Force: A Case Study with Measurements (1990) (5)
Elements of Psychotherapy in Navaho Religion† (1941) (3)
A contribution of population studies: Ameliorative measures for the disadvantaged (1970) (2)
THE DISTRIBUTION OF PSYCHIATRIC SYMPTOMS IN A (1955) (2)
ANTHROPOLOGY IN THE MEDICAL CONTEXT (1972) (2)
The Navajo@@@Children of the People (1948) (1)
8 NAVAHO LIVES (1944) (0)
REFERENCES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY (1947) (0)
5 NAVAHO WAYS AND WHITE MAN’S MEDICINE — IN THE HOSPITAL (1944) (0)
PSYCHIATRIC DISORDER. THE COLLECTION AND EVALUATION OF DATA. (1965) (0)
8. PERSONALITY TRAITS IN NAVAHO CHILDREN (1947) (0)
1 LOOKING BACKWARD (1944) (0)
CHAPTER| T» WAR» AN INTEGRATE* THEORY «F PERSONALITY 1 By Wsje Bronfenbrenner, Pfe9 (1951) (0)
SOUTH AMERICA: Doll Play of Pilagá Indian Children. Jules and Zunia Henry (1945) (0)
Insinuating Social Science into Medical Thinking: Problems and Possibilities (1975) (0)
5. WHERE AND HOW the TESTING WAS DONE (1947) (0)
INTRODUCTION A CHILD OF THE PEOPLE (1947) (0)
Section: Examples / Cases / Models (1990) (0)
Applied: Bibliography of North American Indian Mental Health. Dianne R. Kelso and Carolyn L. Attneave (1983) (0)
The Navaho@@@Children of the People. The Navaho Individual and His Development@@@Guam and Its People (1948) (0)
Miracle Hill: The Story of a Navaho Boy. Emerson Blackhorse Mitchell and T. D. Allen. (1968) (0)
6 NAVAHO WAYS AND WHITE MAN’S MEDICINE — IN OUT-PATIENT WORK (1944) (0)
7 A SPEECH ON HEALTH (1944) (0)
Rehabilitation of the Navahos (1949) (0)
1. BECOMING A NAVAHO: THE FIRST SIX YEARS OF LIFE (1947) (0)
9 LOOKING FORWARD (1944) (0)
4. THE “PSYCHOLOGY“ of THE PEOPLE (1947) (0)
7. SOME ATTITUDES AND INTERESTS OF NAVAHO CHILDREN (1947) (0)
3. ADULT LIFE (1947) (0)
SPECIAL REPORTS: THE FIRST PAN-AFRICAN PSYCHIATRIC CONFERENCE (1962) (0)
4 THE INDIAN SERVICE (1944) (0)
6. MENTAL and PHYSICAL FITNESS (1947) (0)
APPENDIXES. SAMPLE RESPONSES, BETSY'S TESTS (1947) (0)
People and predicaments: Life and distress on Martha's vineyard: by Milton Mazer. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA., 1976. 279 pp. $12.50 (1977) (0)
General and Theoretical: People in Pain. MARK ZBOROWSKI. Foreword by Margaret Mead (1971) (0)
CONCLUSION THE PROJECT AND THE PEOPLE (1947) (0)
2 ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIETY (1944) (0)
NAVAHO KINSHIP TERMS (1944) (0)
2. BECOMING A NAVAHO: LATER CHILDHOOD (1947) (0)

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