Mental health
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:
Clifford Whittingham Beers papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 612
Overview:
Consists of typescript, holograph and mimeograph drafts and notes for A Mind That Found Itself by Clifford W. Beers, Yale graduate, author, founder of the Mental Hygiene Movement, and reformer in the field of mental health. Also included are printed materials, pamphlets, and clippings relating to Beers and his work in addition to photographs of Beers and his wife, the former Clara Louise Jepson.
Dates:
1878-1966, bulk 1878-1958
Ira Vaughan Hiscock papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 1284
Overview:
Correspondence, office files, research materials, and writings documenting Ira Vaughan Hiscock's role as a public health educator, author, consultant, and volunteer, primarily from 1925-1939. Papers illustrate efforts of local, state, and national social welfare agencies in dealing with social problems during the Depression. These papers are part of the Contemporary Medical Care and Health Policy Collection.
Dates:
1918-1979, bulk 1925-1939
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Ira Vaughan Hiscock papers
Institute of Human Relations, Yale University, records
Collection
Call Number: RU 483
Overview:
The records consist of administrative and subject files, annual reports, financial records, publications, and correspondence documenting the activities of the Institute of Human Relations at Yale. Topics include fund-raising, special studies, associations and conferences, fellowships, and research.
Dates:
circa 1928-1963
Joan K. Jackson papers
Collection
Call Number: Ms Coll 54
Scope and Contents:
The papers include Joan Jackson's masters' degree research, her masters' thesis, correrspondence, presentations, grant applications, and publications, and a scrapbook documenting her successful career at University of Washington. The second part of the collection documents her role as a Class A Trustee (i.e. non-alcoholic) of the General Study Board of Alcoholics Anonymous from 1983 to 1992, incuding her presentations and publications.
Dates:
1946-2016
Macdonald family papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 950
Overview:
Principal figures in the papers are James Macdonald, his wife, Eliza Harris Miller Macdonald, and two of their six children: James Allen and Eliza. Included in the papers are family correspondence, household and travel bills and receipts, as well as the business papers of the Sanford Hall Institution, a private mental hospital operated by the family. The bulk of the papers consists of personal letters to Eliza Harris Miller Macdonald and records of the Sanford Hall Institution (1845-1915).
Dates:
1808-1922
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Macdonald family papers
Malcolm Bowers reprints and publications
Collection
Call Number: Ms Coll 65
Overview:
Malcolm Bowers, M.D. was the founding chief of the Research Unit at the Connecticut Mental Health Center, Chief of Psychiatry at Yale-New Haven Hospital, and was affiliated with the Yale School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry for more than forty years. His early research included a series of groundbreaking studies on hallucinogenic drug exposure and the emergence of psychotic disorders. Later research included an extensive series of studies on the role of monoamines in psychosis and...
Dates:
1961-2008, 2010
Elizabeth Cutter Morrow papers regarding Dwight W. Morrow, Jr.
Collection
Call Number: MS 1992
Overview:
The papers document Elizabeth Cutter Morrow’s relationship with and management of the care of her son, Dwight W. Morrow, Jr., as he struggled with mental illness. The papers consist of incoming and outgoing correspondence, newspaper clippings, school and college materials, teaching materials, and photographs. The bulk of the papers consist of correspondence between Elizabeth Cutter Morrow, Dwight W. Morrow, and Dwight W. Morrow, Jr., as well as with various family members, school staff, and...
Dates:
1924-1953
Social Ethics Pamphlet Collection
Collection
Call Number: RG 73
Overview:
The Collection includes pamphlets, brochures, typescripts, booklets, comic books, posters, cartoons, letters, memoranda, offprints, etc., documenting various aspects of social issues in America and throughout the world during the mid-twentieth century.
Dates:
1919-1972, bulk 1938-1958
Hans Caspar Syz papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 1624
Overview:
The papers consist of correspondence, reading notes, writings and research materials relating primarily to Hans C. Syz's career as secretary and president of the Lifwynn Foundation. The papers provide information on the formation and development of the Lifwynn Foundation, as well as research and writing by staff members and students. Syz's work as a psychiatrist in New York and Baltimore hospitals is also documented, as are his activities as a collector of 18th-century Western European...
Dates:
1911-1991
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Hans Caspar Syz papers
Charles-Edward Amory Winslow papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 749
Overview:
The papers consist of correspondence, diaries, organization and subject files, teaching materials, manuscripts, photographs, and other materials documenting the professional career and personal life of C.-E.A. Winslow, a prominent figure in the public health movement. Correspondence focuses on health and social welfare issues with several notable educators, doctors, and social policy advocates. Organization files include material relating to the United States Public Health Service and the...
Dates:
1874-1977, bulk 1915-1945