Boris Sidis
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Boris Sidis was an American psychopathologist, psychologist, physician, psychiatrist, and philosopher of education. Sidis founded the New York State Psychopathic Institute and the Journal of Abnormal
Sidis, Boris, Harvard College Collection 1
William James
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William James was an American philosopher and psychologist. The first educator to offer a psychology course in the United States, he is considered to be one of the leading thinkers of the late 19th ce
Boris Sidis
…Sidis, M.D., and her family fled the pogroms about 1889. Boris completed four degrees at Harvard (a B.A., M.A., Ph.D. and M.D.) and studied under William James. He was influential in the early 20th century, known for pioneering work in psychopathology (founding the New York State Psychopathic Institute and the…
James in 1903
William James in Brazil, 1865
Portrait of William James by John La Farge, c. 1859
James in a séance with a spiritualist medium