Rivers, William Halse Rivers, 1864-1922 (psychologist and anthropologist)
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1864 - 1922
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
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'Freud's Concept of the "Censorship", 192007
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Reference Code: GBR/3377/WHRivers/4/19
Dates:
192007
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Notes on 'Instinct and the Unconscious'
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Reference Code: GBR/3377/WHRivers/1/5
Scope and Contents
Rivers first published his famous treatise on 'Instinct and the Unconscious' in 1920, basing it on a lecture series he delivered in 1919 at the Psychological Laboratory in Cambridge, so these notes (written on notepaper letter-headed 'Weirleigh, Paddock Wood, Kent') may be preparatory to that lecture series.
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Notes on 'the Danger Instincts'
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Reference Code: GBR/3377/WHRivers/1/6
Scope and Contents
Rivers's work on reactions to danger (flight, aggression, immobility etc.) form part of his investigation into the effects of war trauma and the neuroses exhibited by some of those who had fought in the First World War. Rivers differentiates between cowardice and neurosis.
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'Why Is the "Unconscious" Unconscious?', 191810
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Reference Code: GBR/3377/WHRivers/4/13
Scope and Contents
Rivers refers to the work of Henry Head, a colleague with who he had worked closely, on neurology.
Dates:
191810
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- Subject: Unconscious X
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- Fear 2
- Censorship 1
- Dream interpretation 1
- Neurology 1
- Psychoanalysis 1