W. E. R. Mons Explained

Walter Ernest Richard Mons (10 November 1897 – 22 October 1984) best known as W. E. R. Mons was a British psychiatrist.

Mons was born in Switzerland but moved to England after World War I. He obtained MRCS and LRCP from Middlesex Hospital in 1926.[1] He wrote the first book on the Rorschach test in the United Kingdom, Principles and Practice of the Rorschach Personality Test (1947). He was a psychiatric consultant at German Hospital, London's Portman Clinic and managed his own private practice.[1] [2] Mons was interested in parapsychology and philosophy, his conclusions appear in Beyond Mind (1983).[1]

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Notes and References

  1. Anonymous. Obituary. British Medical Journal. Volume 289, pp. 1390-1391 (17 November 1984).
  2. Bailey, Roderick. (2016). Psychiatrists and Secret Agents. The Lancet 388 (10062): 2864–2865.