Charles Samuel Myers
| Dr; Col. Charles Samuel Myers CBE MD DSc LLD; MA MD RAMC | |||||||||||
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| Born | 1873 | ||||||||||
| Died | 1946 | ||||||||||
| Residence |
62 Holland Park, W [1897] Cairo [1901] Caius College, Cambridge [1902]; and Melrose, Grange Road, Cambridge [1905] Galewood Tower, Great Shelford, near Cambridge [1906] 30 Montagu Square, W1 [1919] Caius College, Cambridge [1921] Room 309, 329 High Holborn, WC [1923] 5 K. Montagu Mansions, W1 [1929] 53 York Terrace, NW1 [1935] Winsford, Minehead, Somerset [census] | ||||||||||
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medical psychologist | ||||||||||
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AI Council 1903 Member
AI Council 1904 Member
AI Council 1905 Member
RAI Council 1907 Member
RAI Council 1908 Member
RAI Council 1911 Member
RAI Council 1912-13 Member
RAI Council 1913 Member
RAI Council 1914 Member
RAI Council 1920 Member
RAI Council 1921 Member
RAI Council 1925 Member
RAI Council 1927 Member
House Notes
1895.12.10 proposed by A.C. Haddon
1905.02.14 Dr. C. S. MYERS sang a number of native songs, accompanying himself on the drum.
1914.10.20 A letter was read from Dr C.S. Myers offering his resignation from the Council as he was going on medical service to the war. It was resolved that his resignation be not accepted and the Assistant Secretary was instructed to convey to Dr Myers the good wishes of the Council for a safe and speedy return.
Professor of Psychology, King's College, London
Hon. Advisor, Nat. Inst. of Industrial Psychology
1946.15.10 death noted
Notes From Elsewhere
Charles Samuel Myers, CBE, FRS[1] (13 March 1873 – 12 October 1946) 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.
Myers was born in Kensington, London on 13 March 1873,[2] the eldest son of Wolf Myers, a merchant, and his wife, Esther Eugenie Moses.[3] In the 1881 census he is an 8-year-old scholar living at 27 Arundel Gardens, Kensington, London with his parents, 4 brothers and 4 servants.[4]
In the 1891 census he is a scholar, aged 18 living at 49 Leinster Gardens, Paddington, London, with his parents, 4 brothers, a visitor, and 4 servants (cook, housemaid, parlourmaid, and ladies maid).[5] ...
In 1915 Myers was elected FRS; he was appointed CBE in 1919, and received honorary degrees from the universities of Manchester (DSc, 1927), Calcutta (LLD), and Pennsylvania (DSc). He was a fellow (1919) and later an honorary fellow (1935) of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, a foreign associate of the French Société de Psychologie, twice president of the psychology section of the British Association (1922, 1931), president of the International Congress of Psychology in 1923, and editor of the British Journal of Psychology (1911–24).
Myers was rather above medium height, well built, and remembered for his smile. He made friends readily, but had a tendency to imagine enemies. He enjoyed mountain climbing and lawn tennis, and was a talented violinist. He combined freemasonry with philanthropic activity for the Jewish community. Students and visitors from every part of the world were always welcome at his home. Myers died at his home at Winsford Glebe, near Minehead, Somerset, on 12 October 1946. He was survived by his wife.
Myers undertook more laboratory experimental work than his publications would suggest, but his greatest contributions to the emergent science of psychology in Britain were in establishing many of its pioneering institutions, and promoting it internationally.[citation
Born London; died Minehead.
Member of Torres Straits expedition. Held posts in psychology at Cambridge, King’s College, London and National Institute of Industrial Psychology which he helped found. Commissioned in RAMC in First World War; worked on shell shock. Numerous publications, including some on ethnomusicology. Honorary degrees from Manchester, Calcutta and Pennsylvania. CBE 1919
Publications
External Publications
Text-Book of Experimental Psychology (1909) Read 1911 version online.
Introduction to Experimental Psychology (1911) went through several editions.
Present-day applications of Psychology (1919). Methuen. Read online
Mind and work, the psychological factors in industry and commerce (1920), University of London Press
Mind and work (1921) G.P. Putman's sons Industrial Psychology in Great Britain (1926) J Cape Ltd. Industrial Psychology (1929) T. Butterworth ltd.
Psychological conceptions in other sciences (1929) Clarendon Press.
Ten Years of Industrial Psychology (with H. J. Welch, 1932)
The absurdity of any mind-body relation (1932) Oxford University Press, H. Milford Series: L.T. Hobhouse memorial trust lectures, no. 2
A Psychologist's Point of View (1933)
In the Realm of Mind (1937). The University Press.
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