Grand in-octavo demi chagrin de l epoque, X-559 pages et 97 figures in-texte, ex-libris de Charles Myers ---Charles Samuel Myers, was an English physician who worked as a psychologist. He wrote the first paper on shell shock in 1915, but did not invent the term. He was co-founder of the British Psychological Society and the National Institute of Industrial Psychology. In 1898 he joined W. H. R. Rivers and William McDougall on the Cambridge anthropological expedition organised by Alfred Cort Haddon to the Torres Straits and Sarawak. Here he studied ethnic music, carrying out research on rhythm in Borneo. In 1906 he contributed an appendix entitled "Traces of African Melody in Jamaica" to the book Jamaican Song and Story by Walter Jekyll. Between 1901 and 1902 Myers was involved in the collection of anthropometric measurements of Egyptians On his return to England he was appointed house physician at St Bartholomew's. In 1902 he returned to Cambridge to help Rivers teach the physiology of the special senses. In 1904 Myers married Edith Babette, youngest daughter of Isaac Seligman, a merchant in London; they had three daughters and two sons. Myers remained in Cambridge to become, in succession, demonstrator, lecturer, and, in 1921, reader in experimental psychology. From 1906 to 1909 he was also professor in experimental psychology at London University. In 1909, when W.H.R. Rivers resigned a part of his Lectureship, Myers became the first lecturer at Cambridge University whose whole duty was to teach experimental psychology. For this he received a stipend of £50 a year. He held this position until 1930. From 1911 Myers co-edited the British Journal of Psychology with Rivers. In 1914 he took over as sole editor, continuing in this post until 1924. In 1912, Myers used his enthusiasm and ability to raise funds to establish the first English laboratory especially designed for experimental psychology at Cambridge. He became the laboratory's first Director and held this position until 1930. (The Cambridge Laboratory of Experimental Psychology). In 1915 Myers was given a commission in the Royal Army Medical Corps and in 1916 he was appointed consultant psychologist to the British armies in France with a staff of assistants at Le Touquet.[18] In 1915 Myers was the first to use the term "shell shock" in an article in The Lancet,[19][20] though he later acknowledged in 1940 that he did not invent the term. He tried to save shell-shocked soldiers from execution. - - - - x+559 pp; 24/15; 97 figuren in tekst; eigentijdse kaft (goudopdruk rug); ex-lib (Charles Myers Library, Spearman Collection, National Institute of Industrial Psychology; handtekening 'C Spearman'; stempels Wellcome Library 'withdrawn') Deel I = Janet ; 2° ed 1908 (x+559p), 3° ed 1924 (xii+559p)
