Vic Meyer

Vic Meyer (Victor Meyer) was a British psychologist at the Middlesex Hospital Medical School of the University of London (now UCL Medical School) and considered to be the spiritual father of case formulation, an approach toward understanding complex psychiatric problems using learning principles derived from scientific psychological research and uniquely adapted to the individual case by means of the experimental method as a way to develop an effective intervention regimen. Meyer is credited by the British Psychological Society for his influential work in creating case formulation along with three other early pioneers:Hans Eysenck, Monte B. Shapiro, and Ira Turkat. While Turkat coined the term, "case formulation" he credits Meyer as the primary creator of the framework of what is generally known today as case formulation, a required core skill for all British practicing psychologists since 2011.

Prior to becoming a psychologist, Meyer was an RAF pilot, his plane was shot down in France during the Second World War and he became a Prisoner of War.

Early in his career as a psychologist (mid 1960s), Meyer created the first successful psychological treatment for obsessive-compulsive motor rituals known as Response Prevention - - today, a well established, scientifically validated treatment method used around the world for children and adults so afflicted. Meyer devised this procedure from his analysis of scientific animal studies on ritualistic behavior and then applied it to human cases in the psychiatric setting, which at the time, were considered intractable. The treatment procedure is currently called Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) and its success clinically and scientifically has been summarized as "spectacular" by prominent psychology professor, Stanley Rachman decades following Meyer's creation of the method. Meyer was among the first psychologists to show that complex psychiatric problems could indeed be treated successfully by psychological methods.

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