Dr W.H. Rivers M.D., D.Sc., LL,D., F.R.S.

Rivers was an English anthropologist, neurologist, ethnologist and psychiatrist, best known for his work treating First World War officers who were suffering from shell shock in order to return them to combat duties. He was born in 1864 and died in 1922 in Cambridge. His most famous patient was the poet Siegfried Sassoon, with whom he remained close friends until his own death. His war service started as a civilian physician, in July 1915, in a post specialising in psychiatry at the Maghull Hospital in Liverpool, After a year, he was appointed as a captain in the R.A.M.C. and transferred to Craiglockhart Military Hospital in Edinburgh, where he undertook pioneering work and began to formulate his theory regarding the origin and treatment of war neurosis.

RCC8007 Conflict And Dream (Rivers)