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Dec 2, 2018 · As a result of his clashes with Freudian psychoanalysis, mainstream methods of education, and Behaviorism, Boris's impressive corpus fell into obscurity. The first volume of The Complete Boris Sidis covers his work in hypnosis, consciousness, nervous ailments, and pedagogy. Book recommendations, author interviews, editors' picks, and more.
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Nov 7, 2006 · In the waning years of the nineteenth century, boatloads of Russian Jewish immigrants were arriving in New York harbor as they fled from the religious and political persecution of their homeland. Boris and Sarah Sidis arrived in such a fashion, and they quickly gained notoriety in the United States as brilliant individuals.
BORIS SIDIS. The American Magazine, 1910, 71, 71-81. (This is an excerpt from "Masters of the Mind" ― an article well worth reading.) Dr. Sidis has a two-fold claim on the interest of the readers of this magazine, as being the father of that wonderful the eleven-year-old Harvard student, William James Sidis―he was twelve in April―whose ...
English: Boris Sidis (October 12, 1867 - October 24, 1923) was a Russian-born American psychologist and psychiatrist influential in the early 20th century, known for pioneering work in psychopathology, hypnoid states, and group psychology.
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. Thereafter, James told lecture audiences that people only meet a fraction of their full mental potential, which is a ...
Feb 1, 2008 · Philistine and genius ... Philistine and genius by Sidis, Boris, 1867-1923. Publication date 1911 Topics Education, Genius Publisher New York, Moffat, Yard Collection
Boston: Richard G. Badger, 1914. In this volume Dr. Sidis outlines his fundamental concepts of psychology, concepts and principles which have proven in his hands so rich and fruitful in their application to abnormal mental life. The psychic process is a biological process, and is, in its main characteristics, closely analogous to the life process.
