Boris Sidis

Boris Sidis (ur. 12 października 1867 w Berdyczowie, zm. 24 października 1923 w Portsmouth) – rosyjsko-amerykański lekarz psycholog i psychiatra. Założyciel New York State Psychopathic Institute i czasopisma „Journal of Abnormal Psychology”.

Ojciec cudownego dziecka, Williama.

Wybrane prace

• The Psychology of Suggestion: A Research into the Subconscious Nature of Man and Society (1898)
• Psychopathological Researches: Studies in Mental Dissociation (1902)
• Multiple Personality: An Experimental Investigation into Human Individuality (1904)
• An Experimental Study of Sleep (1909)
• Philistine and Genius (1911)
• The Psychology of Laughter (1913)
• The Foundations of Normal and Abnormal Psychology (1914)
• Symptomatology, Psychognosis, and Diagnosis of Psychopathic Diseases (1914)
• The Causation and Treatment of Psychopathic Diseases (1916)
• The Source and Aim of Human Progress: A Study in Social Psychology and Social Pathology (1919)
• Nervous Ills: Their Cause and Cure (1922)

Bibliografia

• Wallace, Amy, The prodigy: A biography of William James Sidis, America's greatest child prodigy, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co. 1986. ISBN 0-525-24404-2