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Boris Sidis ( / ˈsaɪdɪs /; October 12, 1867 – October 24, 1923) was a Ukrainian-American psychologist, physician, psychiatrist, and philosopher of education. Sidis founded the New York State Psychopathic Institute and the Journal of Abnormal Psychology. He was the father of child prodigy William James Sidis.
Dr. Sidis, widow of Dr. Boris Sidis, an outstanding abnormal psychologist at Harvard some decades ago, talked about her theories yesterday while visiting with Mrs. Samuel Starr of 206 Waterman Street. She practiced psychiatry herself for some 40 years and is now 78 years old. But she does not allow age to slow her down.
William James Sidis (in the only image of him as an adult, taken for a Harvard class album) died in 1944 at the age of 46. Photograph courtesy of the Harvard University Archives. Norbert Wiener (in a classroom at MIT, circa 1949) became a pioneer in the field of cybernetics. Photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt/The Life Picture Collection/Getty Images.
DR. BORIS SIDIS ―Born in Berditchev, Russia Oct. 12, 1867. At age of 17 imprisoned by Czar as political prisoner, for teaching peasants to read, against Czarist law. Released and escaped to America 1887. AB Harvard 1894; AM 1895; PhD 1897; MD 1908. Assistant in Aristotelian Logic, Harvard 1896.
Apr 24, 2020 · Politics & History. How Jewish Immigrants Changed American Psychology. Secular Jewish psychologists like Boris Sidis criticized the positive optimism of Protestant-centered psychology. Boris Sidis. via Wikimedia Commons. By: Peter Feuerherd. April 24, 2020. 3 minutes. The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR.
You'll find here 16 of his 17 books. Find also 45 of his 57 scientific-journal and popular-magazine articles (most of the topics of the other 12 are dealt with in his book s); 22 reviews of 13 of his works; and, we assume, all available biographical material. See also The Essential Boris Sidis.
Image 23 of Copy 2 LAUGHTER Laughter, smiling, and grinning are the external manifestations of the play instinct. Laughter may be sublimated into a barely perceptible smile; the smile in its turn may become sublimated into a... Contributor: Sidis, Boris.
