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Reprints the lecture "Remembering Dr. Myers," by F.C. Barlett on the works of English psychologist Charles Samuel Myers that was delivered at Cambridge University in Cambridge, England on November 8, 1964, which appeared in the 1965 issue of the "Bulletin of the British Psychological Society." Efforts of Myers to establish the Cambridge Psychological Laboratory; His attempt to apply psychotherapeutic measures to shell-shocked soldiers of the British Army in France during the World War I; His tenure as an editor of the "British Journal of Psychology."

The article presents a paper that explores the applicability of psycho-analytical psychotherapy in a National Health Service clinic for out-patients who suffer from psychoneuroses in Great Britain. The technique of psychotherapy was based on psychoanalysis in so far as the patients were encouraged to freely associate and priority was given to the elucidation and interpretation of unconscious resistances. The implications of the results and those obtained with individual therapy in cases of long-standing illness cannot be denied or ignored. The results suggests that patients receive benefit from psycho-analytical psychotherapy and justify the initiation of pilot studies which might examine the efficacy of analytical psychotherapy in a manner acceptable to the psychiatrists and physicians.

The article decribes the types of group work to be adopted in mental hospitals in Great Britain for pyschiatric treatment. This papers tried to expressed that it is impossible to consider group treatment in psychiatric hospitals without referring to the social structure of the hospital as a whole. Psychoanalytic group is for out-patient groups of selected patients with psychoneurotic problems and familiar with conceptual thinking. Ward meetings involve 60 patients with a staff who comes in contact with them. Family group is a case for every patient seen in relation to his family, in which the family should be involved at the initial interview. In activity groups, five patients are formed into a group and activity program are developed within their competence.

Reprints the lecture "C.S. Myers in Retrospect," by Alec Rodger on the works of English psychologist Charles Samuel Myers that was delivered to the British Psychological Society on February 1971, which appeared in the July 1971 issue of the "Bulletin of the British Psychological Society." Educational and career background of the psychologist; His emphasis on the importance of psychological methods of enquiry; His efforts to apply psychotherapy to shell-shocked soldiers of the British Army in France during the World War I.