University of Edinburgh Archive and Manuscript Collections

Scope and Contents Comprises of correspondence sent and received by the Scottish Homosexual Rights Group’s (SHRG) Befriending Team, which includes:Correspondence between members of the Befriending Team about individual cases and organisational and administrative issues, as well as letters to and from prospective/new members and letters of resignation.Correspondence from clients to the Befriending Team asking for information and advice, contacts for external services, and arranging...

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C.G. Smith: “Marital Influences on Treatment Outcome in Alcoholism”, reprinted from 'Journal of the Irish Medical Association', 1967

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Bound volume of pamphlets and articles by staff from the Royal Edinburgh Asylum.

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Topics discussed include: call cards; a membership update; a new Glasgow based group run by 'a businessman'; a newssheet called Encounter, with links to Staffordshire, appearing in Glasgow denouncing Strathclyde Switchboard; Icebreakers; the Annual Conference; and reports of a new Livingston based gay advisory service for young people established by 'self-acknowledged paedophile' and a subsequent proposal to create a list of accredited gay groups.

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Pamphlet for the opening of the Unit for the Treatment of Alcoholism, 5 February 1969. Includes information on the Unit and treatment, with programme for the day.

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Topics discussed include: control of Befriending Team's finances; visit from the police regarding books on sale; artificial insemination; meeting with Edinburgh District Council on Alcoholism; a forum which would host workshops on counselling; future financing; membership update; and an agreement to contact Samaritans to discuss their policy on dealing with suicide calls.