ABSTRACT
INTRODUCTION A hundred years ago, the Cambridge University Reporter announced the appointment of William Halse Rivers Rivers as University Lecturer in Physiological and Experimental Psychology. This was the first university appointment in psychology in Cambridge. During the next 25 years, until his premature death in 1922, Rivers made remarkable contributions to psychology, neurology, anthropology and psychotherapy. A century later, he is much better remembered by anthropologists than by psychologists. But he was very much a psychologist throughout his life. Of Bartlett’s teachers, Rivers and his pupil C.S.Myers had the most influence on him.
