Alexander H. Leighton, 1908-2007

"In 1945 and 1947 he was awarded Guggenheim Fellowships. From 1946 to 1966 he was full professor in the Cornell University Department of Sociology and Anthropology. During this time he also taught at the School of Labor and Industrial Relations and at the Cornell Medical School in New York. He left Cornell to work at the Harvard School of Public Health, where he was Professor of Social Psychiatry and Head of the Department of Behavioral Sciences until 1975. He left Harvard to become the Canadian National Health Scientist in the Department of Psychiatry at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia,....In 1948, he initiated and carried out (later joined by his wife, Jane Murphy) the Stirling County Study (still in effect today), which studies the distribution of clinical depression and anxiety disorders in a general population in several areas over the world. In 2003 a day long conference, the Leighton Symposium, was held by the Canadian Anthropology Society in honor of Leighton and his wife's scientific contributions to the field of psychiatric epidemiology"(Alexander H. Leighton, 1908-2007,by Wiki in English).

• The Governing of Men: By Alexander H. Leighton, Lt. Commander, M.C., U.S.N.R. Princeton, N. J.: Princeton Univercity Press, 1945. 404 pp."This book is by a man trained in Meyerian psychiatry and social anthropology who had done field work among the Navajo Indians and Eskimos. He was assigned to the Japanese relocation center at Poston, Arizona, under the sponsorship of the American Council, Institute of Pacific Relations. His purpose was to apply the methods of the social sciences to the problem of interrelationships in this community"(source:pep-web.org/document.php?id=paq.015.0391a).
• My Name is Legion. Foundations for a Theory of Man in Relation to Culture: By Alexander H. Leighton. New York: Basic Books, Inc. 1959. 452 pp.