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Boris Sidis

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American psychiatrist (1867-1923)

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  • An Expiremental Study of Sleep
  • Nervous Ills, Their Cause and Cure
  • Experimental Study of Sleep
  • Studies in Psychopathology
  • Causation and Treatment of Psychopathic Diseases

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MedicinePsychologyPsychoanalysisCognitive psychologyComputer science

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  • Suggestibility varies as the amount of disaggregation, and inversely as the unification of consciousness.
  • The principle of recognition of evil under all its guises is at the basis of the true education of man.
  • The course of evolution is to a greater integration of similarly functioning ganglia.
  • The general tendency of evolution is from structure to function, from bondage to freedom of the individual elements.
  • Science is the description of phenomena and the formulation of their relations.
  • Psychology is the science of psychic states both as to content and form, regarded from an objective standpoint, and brought in relation to the living corporeal individual.

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date of birth
1867-10-12
date of death
1923-10-24
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