When1: 1914
When2: 1923
Who: William Halse Rivers [Rivers, William Halse]
What: psychologist/ethnologist
Where: Britain
works\ Kinship and Social Organization [1914]; History of Melanesian Society [1914]; Instinct and the Unconscious [1920]; Conflict and Dream [1923]
Detail: He lived 1864 to 1922. He postulated that two forms of cutaneous sensation exist, broad {protopathic sensation} and narrow {epicritic sensation}. However, this theory is false. Many dreams are fantasy attempts to resolve current emotional problems.
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