Tony Gibson (psychologist)
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Born | Hamilton Bertie Gibson 14 October 1914 |
Died | 22 March 2001 Cambridge, England | (aged 86)
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Occupation | Psychologist |
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Known for | Political activism, Gibson Spiral Maze, Hypnotism |
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Children | 2 |
Hamilton Bertie Gibson (14 October 1914 – 22 March 2001), generally known as Tony Gibson, was a British psychologist, anarchist, and model.[1] He became known for his objection to Great Britain's involvement in World War II and his subsequent imprisonment for being an unregistered conscientious objector.[2]
In 1939, while working as a life model for art students, he was selected to model for
After the war he worked at Burgess Hill School teaching woodwork and biology.
During the period at Cambridge, he developed the Spiral Maze, a
In 1970 he founded the Psychology Department at University of Hertfordshire which he headed until 1976. He was the first president of the British Society of Experimental and Clinical Hypnosis.[7]
In 1981 he published a biography of Hans Eysenck, with whom he had worked at the Institute of Psychiatry in London [8]
He died in Cambridge aged 86 on 22 March 2001.[4]
References
- ^ Pierce, Andrew (20 October 2005). "A slick coiffure puts one candidate head and shoulders above his rivals". The Times. London. Retrieved 16 February 2008.
- ^ a b "Brylcreem Boy, psychologist, anarchist, and conscientious objector". The Irish Times. 5 May 2001. Retrieved 16 February 2008.
- ^ "Brylcreem in the handy active service tube". Retrieved 10 January 2011.
- ^ .
- PMID 14168486.
- S2CID 31998657.
- ^ Rooum, Donald; Segar, Rufus (30 April 2001). "Tony Gibson: Conscientious objector who became the smooth image of the RAF". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 16 February 2008.
- ISBN 0-7206-0566-0.
External links
- Tony Gibson page Daily Bleed's Anarchist Encyclopedia
- Michael Heap's memoir of Tony Gibson