Read about WHR Rivers, one of our oldest colleagues & his pioneering approach to care.
The Rivers Centre takes its name from the psychiatrist (and anthropologist) William Halse Rivers (W.H.R.) Rivers (1864-1922) who was stationed at the at Craiglockhart War Hospital, Edinburgh, in 1917 and who famously treated British officers, including Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, suffering from shell shock by the “talking cure” which was revolutionary then and continues to influence trauma therapy today.
The 4th June 2022 marked the 100th anniversary since his death. Read this blog about one of our oldest colleagues & his pioneering approach to care.
