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Boris Sidis (/ ˈ s aɪ d ɪ s /; October 12, 1867 – October 24, 1923) was a Ukrainian-American psychopathologist, psychologist, physician, psychiatrist, and philosopher of education. Sidis founded the New York State Psychopathic Institute and the Journal of Abnormal Psychology .
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 16 December 2024. American child prodigy (1898–1944) William James Sidis Sidis at his Harvard graduation (1914) Born (1898-04-01) April 1, 1898 Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. Died July 17, 1944 (1944-07-17) (aged 46) Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. Other names John W. Shattuck Frank Folupa Parker Greene Jacob ...
Jeremy Hall (1985–): American army specialist who sued the U.S. Department of Defense, alleging his atheism led to discrimination, death threats and being denied promotions. [93] Chelsea Manning (1987–): American soldier who was arrested in May 2010 in Iraq on suspicion of having passed classified material to the website WikiLeaks. [94] [95]
A likely origin for the "10% myth" is the reserve energy theories of Harvard psychologists William James and Boris Sidis.In the 1890s, they tested the theory in the accelerated raising of the child prodigy William Sidis.
Sidis may refer to: Boris Sidis (1867–1923), psychologist, psychiatrist, and psychopathologist, father of William James Sidis William James Sidis (1898–1944), eccentric genius and child prodigy, son of Boris
Boris Sidis. Boris Sidis (1867–1923), a Ukraine-born American psychologist and psychiatrist who studied under William James at Harvard University, formulated this law of suggestion: Suggestibility varies as the amount of disaggregation, and inversely as the unification of consciousness.
Boris Sidis (1867–1923): Ukrainian psychologist, physician, psychiatrist, and philosopher of education. [155] Peter Singer. Peter Singer (1946–): Australian utilitarian philosopher, proponent of animal rights, and Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University. [156]
Boston was the center of a local "medical psychotherapy" tradition going back to the 1890s when William James, Josiah Royce, Hugo Munsterberg and Boris Sidis developed individualized techniques for the relief of mental distress. The psychiatric professionals of the 19th century, alienists and neurologists, were primarily concerned with severe ...