W. H. R. Rivers
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English anthropologist, neurologist, ethnologist and psychiatrist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, William Halse Rivers Rivers was an English anthropologist, neurologist, ethnologist and psychiatrist known for treatment of First World War officers suffering shell shock, so they could be returned to combat. Rivers' most famous patient was the war poet Siegfried Sassoon, with whom he remained close friends until his own sudden death.
W. H. R. Rivers's Published Works
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- THE AFFERENT NERVOUS SYSTEM FROM A NEW ASPECT (1905) (207)
- INSTINCT AND THE UNCONSCIOUS (1921) (153)
- OBSERVATIONS ON THE SENSES OF THE TODAS (1905) (153)
- A HUMAN EXPERIMENT IN NERVE DIVISION (1908) (143)
- The Genealogical Method of Anthropological Inquiry (1910) (98)
- MEDICINE, MAGIC, AND RELIGION (1915) (97)
- The Repression of War Experience (1918) (96)
- The British Journal of Psychology (1904) (76)
- The action of caffeine on the capacity for muscular work (1907) (70)
- A Genealogical Method of Collecting Social and Vital Statistics (57)
- Essays on the Depopulation of Melanesia (1923) (49)
- Conflict and Dream (1923) (46)
- 109. A Method of Recording String Figures and Tricks. (25)
- FREUD'S PSYCHOLOGY OF THE UNCONSCIOUS. (1917) (23)
- Sociology and Psychology (1916) (18)
- The Colour Vision of the Natives of Upper Egypt (18)
- Totemism in Polynesia and Melanesia. (16)
- The Father's Sister in Oceania (1910) (16)
- XXV. The Marriage of Cousins in India (1907) (13)
- THE ILLUSION OF COMPARED HORIZONTAL AND VERTICAL LINES (11)
- Dreams and primitive culture (1918) (10)
- THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE THE ETHNOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF CULTURE. (1911) (10)
- Psychology and Politics and Other Essays (1927) (9)
- A CASE OF CLAUSTROPHOBIA. (1917) (7)
- Descent and Ceremonial in Ambrim. (1915) (6)
- A MODIFICATION OF ARISTOTLE'S EXPERIMENT. (1894) (6)
- The Sociological Significance of Myth. (1912) (6)
- On Mental Fatigue and Recovery (1896) (6)
- The Photometry of Coloured Paper (1897) (6)
- Studies in neurology, in two volumes, Vol 1. (5)
- METHODS AND PRINCIPLES: Primitive Society. Robert H. Lowie. Boni and Liveright (1920) (5)
- Forty-Fourth Annual Report of the Council (1922) (4)
- Survival in Sociology (1913) (4)
- The influence of small doses of alcohol on the capacity for muscular work (4)
- AFFECT IN THE DREAM (1921) (4)
- The Dying-Out of Native Races. (1920) (4)
- Experimental Psychology in Relation to Insanity (1895) (4)
- WHY IS THE ‘UNCONSCIOUS’ UNCONSCIOUS?1: II (1918) (4)
- The automatic bladder. (4)
- Mind and medicine (1919) (3)
- 85. Melanesian Gerontocracy (3)
- THE RELATIONS OF COMPLEX AND SENTIMENT. I1 (1922) (3)
- Changes in the nails associated with nerve injuries. (3)
- Forty-Third Annual Report of the Council (1921) (3)
- SUN-CULT AND MEGALITHS IN OCEANIA (1915) (3)
- The Concept of “Soul-Substance,” in New Guinea and Melanesia (1920) (3)
- A CASE OF TREADLER'S CRAMP (2)
- Methods of examining sensation. (2)
- The Migrations of Early Culture@@@The Influence of Ancient Egyptian Civilization in the East and in America (1916) (2)
- Report on the Psychology and Sociology of the Todas and other Indian Tribes (1906) (2)
- Presidential Address. The Unity of Anthropology (2)
- Sensory disturbances associated with certain lesions of the optic thalamus. (2)
- 75. Totemism in Fiji. (1)
- Island-Names in Melanesia (1912) (1)
- History of the case. (1)
- The Afferent Nervous System from a New Aspect. (1906) (1)
- 12. [Communication from Dr. W. H. R. Rivers Regarding Exhibition of Human Specimens] (1)
- PSYCHOLOGY AND MEDICINE1 (1920) (1)
- Psychological Effects of Alcohol. An Experimental Investigation of the Effects of Moderate Doses of Ethyl Alcohol on a Related Group of Neuro-muscular Processes in Man (1916) (1)
- The compass test. (1)
- The phenomena of deep sensibility. (1)
- 136. On the Functions of the Maternal Uncle in Torres Strait. (1)
- 137. On the Functions of the Son-in-Law and Brother in-Law in Torres Strait. (1)
- The principles which determine anatomical localisation of sensory functions in the cortex. (0)
- The Migrations of Early Culture. On the Significance of the Geographical Distribution of the Practice of Mummification. A Study of the Migrations of Peoples and the Spread of certain Customs and Beliefs (1915) (0)
- Recovery of sensation after incomplete division of the nerves of the hand. (0)
- Trophic, vasomotor, and pilomotor changes. (0)
- Some basic psychological conceptions. (0)
- METHODS OF DREAM‐ANALYSIS1 (0)
- Wishes, sentiments, complexes, systems. (0)
- Psychology and ethnology / W.H.R. Rivers (0)
- 59. The Boomerang in the New Hebrides (0)
- Nerve supply of the lower limb. (0)
- Changes in the skin associated with injuries to peripheral nerves. (0)
- 28. The Bow in New Ireland (0)
- The psycho-neuroses. (0)
- The interrelation of afferent impulses in their passage up the spinal cord. (0)
- Suppression and inhibition. (0)
- Social customs and organization. (0)
- 93. The Solomon Island Basket (0)
- Localisation and spacial discrimination. (0)
- Nerve supply of the palm of the hand. (0)
- The danger-instincts. (0)
- The passage through the spinal cord of afferent impulses concerned with the spacial aspects of sensation. (0)
- 57. Anthropology at the Universities. (0)
- VII.—Christian Science and Spiritual Healing (1921) (0)
- Reviews and Abstract (0)
- The nature of instinct. (0)
- VIII—CRITICAL NOTICES (1895) (0)
- The grouping of afferent impulses in the spinal cord and brain-stem. (0)
- Island-Names in Melanesia: Discussion (1912) (0)
- Suppression and the all-or-none principle. (0)
- Sensations of heat and cold. (0)
- Sensibility of the hairs. (0)
- The forms assumed by disturbances of sensation due to lesions of the cortex. (0)
- Tests which appeal to the cortex and to the optic thalamus. (0)
- Loss of sensation in the arm from division of posterior nerve roots. (0)
- Nerve supply of the forearm. (0)
- The content of the unconscious. (0)
- PSYCHIATRY OF THE WAR (0)
- Recovery of sensation after division of the nerves of the hand. (0)
- Conditions of examination. (0)
- Injuries to the brachial plexus. (0)
- The nature of the loss of sensation produced by a lesion of the spinal cord, compared with that due to division of peripheral nerves. (0)
- Other modes of solution. (0)
- Local effects of an intramedullary lesion. (0)
- The integration of afferent impulses. (0)
- The method and an illustrative case. (0)
- Afferent segmentation within the spinal cord. (0)
- Analysis of the loss of sensation produced by lesions of the optic thalamus and neighbouring parts. (0)
- Psychology and politics. (0)
- Clinical application of these methods. (0)
- Instinct and suppression. (0)
- Paralysis and other muscular changes. (0)
- Sensory disturbances produced by lesions of the cerebral cortex. (0)
- Hysteria or substitution-neurosis. (0)
- Studies in neurology, in two volumes, Vol 2. (0)
- Adaptation to heat and cold. (0)
- General theoretical conclusions. (0)
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