Charles Samuel Myers

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Charles Samuel Myers (around 1920)

Charles Samuel Myers (born March 13, 1873 in Kensington , London , † October 12, 1946 in Winsford , Somerset ) was an English psychiatrist and the eldest of the five sons of his parents Wolf Myers and Esther Eugenie Myers nee. Moses.

education

Myers went to the City of London School. He studied science at Gonville and Caius College at Cambridge University . He did practical training at St. Barthälomeus Hospital in London .

Research before the First World War

In 1898 he took part in the anthropological expedition to Torres Strait organized by Alfred Cort Haddon with WHR Rivers and William McDougall . On his return he was given another position at St. Barthälomeus Hospital in London. Then he went to Cambridge and helped Rivers in his research on sensory perception. From 1906 to 1909 he held a chair in psychology at the University of London . In 1909, he became the first full-time university teacher to teach experimental psychology at Cambridge University. In 1911 he was together with Rivers editor of the British Journal of Psychology , whose sole editor he was from 1914 to 1924. 1912 Myers set up the first laboratory for experimental psychology at a British university, whose director he remained until 1930.

Work during the First World War

Myers served as a medical officer from 1915 in the Royal Army Medical Corps and from 1916 worked as a psychologist in Le Touquet , France . It is said that he coined the term " Shell Shock " from an article in The Lancet in 1915. His detailed account of this condition, also known as the war neurosis , was published in 1940.

post war period

After the end of the war, Myers returned to his chair in Cambridge. From 1922 he also headed the National Institute of Industrial Psychology in London , which he founded in 1921 with Henry John Welch .

Memberships

On March 5, 1895, Myers was accepted into the league of Freemasons ( Isaac Newton Lodge No. 859 , Cambridge). In 1908 he became lodge master of the Alma Mater Lodge No. Elected at Cambridge in 1492 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Myers, Charles Samuel . In: John Archibald Venn (Ed.): Alumni Cantabrigienses . A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900. Part 2: From 1752 to 1900 , Volume 4 : Kahlenberg – Oyler . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1951, pp. 507 ( venn.lib.cam.ac.uk Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  2. ↑ Cambridge University Department of Experimental Psychology ( July 21, 2011 memento in the Internet Archive ) - Official website archived from the original. Retrieved August 27, 2012.
  3. ↑ thepsychologist.org.uk (PDF; 103 kB) V. Bruce: Coming of Age, The Centenary of the British Psychological Society. In: The Psychologist. 2001, issue 14, pp. 28-29.
  4. ^ CS Myers: Shell-Shock in France 1914-1918, Based on a War Diary kept by CS Myers. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1940.
  5. ↑ Charles Samuel Myers Freemason on the website of Gila Valley No. 9 , accessed June 2, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Myers, Charles Samuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English psychiatrist
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Kensington , London
DATE OF DEATH October 12, 1946
Place of death Winsford , Somerset