Person
Wilfred Trotter
English surgeon and social psychologist, author of Instincts of the Herd in Peace and War (1916). His idea of a herd instinct shaped Wilfred Bion's early interest in the mentality of groups.
Influence
Affinity
- influenced Wilfred Bion
Bion trained under the surgeon Trotter at University College Hospital, and Trotter's Instincts of the Herd in Peace and War (1916) shaped his interest in groups.
Gallery
A meeting of the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in the Council Chamber, 1927, with Wilfred Trotter among those present as Director of Examinations; photogravure after the painting by Moussa Ayoub, 1927
