Columbia University Bronx Research Center
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Garrison, Vivian, 1933-2013
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content: Vivian E. Garrison papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 16.28 Linear feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1968-1977
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.2017-19, Series 2
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content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Series 2 is arranged into 4 sub-series: (2.1) Research files, data, and tabulations, circa 1972-1976; (2.2) Medical questionnaires, circa 1968-1974; (2.3) Sound recordings, 1972-1977; (2.4) Administrative files, 1970-1977.
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content: Series 2 consists of material documenting Garrison's research into the mental health care and folk healing practices of Puerto Rican and African American communities of the South Bronx with Columbia University. The series includes administrative files, case vignettes, coding cards and forms, correspondence, data and tabulations, field notes, grant applications, presentations, reports, and sound recordings.

Garrison worked as a Senior Research Associate and Principal Investigator at the Columbia-Bronx Research Center/Unit, funded by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) grant, "Folk Healers and Community Mental Health Programming." Of note in this series are the clinical case study notes and interviews (predominantly sound cassettes) of patients and folk healers.

Research documented in this series built on Garrison's earlier South Bronx research conducted at the Lincoln Hospital Mental Health Services (see Series 1). Columbia is where she completed some of her analysis and computations regarding LHMHS-gathered data.

Related Material related to various clinical cases and folk healers can also be found in Series 3: Inner-City Support Systems Project. Additional material related to publications made from Columbia Bronx-gathered data can be found in Series 5: Publications, manuscripts, and associated research files.