W. H. R. Rivers, English anthropologist, neurologist, ethnologist, and psychiatrist (born 1864)

W. H. R. Rivers

English psychiatrist and anthropologist (1864–1922)

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…