'A proposal for research in the epidemiology of psychiatric disorders', by
Alexander H Leighton (1950).
HISTORY OF PSYCHIATRY 2024;
35:103-113. [PMID:
38009444 DOI:
10.1177/0957154x231210666]
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Abstract
The Classic Text is an outline of the Stirling County Study as conceptualized by Alexander H Leighton. It was first presented at a conference held in 1949 organized by the Milbank Memorial Fund, an American philanthropic foundation. The meeting brought together 30-40 experts from across North America. Leighton succinctly explained his frame of reference for the epidemiology of mental disorders and the methodology of the community-based study he conducted in Nova Scotia. The introduction to the text explains contextual points, certain specificities of Leighton's framework, and the discussions that surrounded it, largely dominated by a group of Harvard professors, including Erich Lindemann and John E Gordon.
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