William Halse Rivers Rivers was an English anthropologist, neurologist, ethnologist and psychiatrist known for treatment of First World War officers suffering shell shock. Rivers' most famous patient was the war poet Siegfried Sassoon, with whom he remained close friends until his own sudden death.
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HMS Victory
Image of the stained glass window of the church in Offham, Kent, where Henry Rivers was curate from 1880 to 1889
Tonbridge School where Rivers and his brother Charles were day-boys
A young W. H. R. Rivers
View of St John's College, Cambridge
Members of the 1898 Torres Straits Expedition. Standing (from left to right): Rivers, Seligman, Ray, Wilkin. Seated: Haddon
Henry Head and W. H. R. Rivers experimenting in Rivers's rooms (1903-1907)Awards 3
Connected to William 6
John Hughlings JacksonAlso won Croonian Medal and Lecture
Salvador MoncadaAlso won Croonian Medal and Lecture
Pierre-Paul Émile RouxAlso won Croonian Medal and Lecture
Ernest StarlingAlso won Croonian Medal and Lecture
Grafton Elliot SmithAlso won Croonian Medal and Lecture
Frederic BartlettAlso won Croonian Medal and LectureAbout this person
Category
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1864 to 1922 · aged 58
Written about in
16 languages
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