http://www.uic.edu/classes/psych/psych305/names.html

List of significant Contributors to Psychology (1600-1950)

http://paradigm.soci.brocku.ca/~lward/James/James_03_05.html

Psychologists, studying our perceptions of movement, have unearthed experiences in which movement is felt in general but not ascribed correctly to the body that really moves. Thus in optical vertigo, caused by unconscious movements of our eyes, both we and the external universe appear to be in a whirl. When clouds float by the moon, it is as if both clouds and moon and we ourselves shared in the motion. In the extraordinary case of amnesia of the Rev. Mr. Hanna, published by Sidis and Goodhart in their important work on Multiple Personality, we read that when the patient first recovered consciousness and "noticed an attendant walk across the room, he identified the movement with that of his own. He did not yet discriminate between his own movements and those outside himself." [5] Such experiences point to a primitive stage of perception in which discriminations afterwards needful have not yet been made. A piece of experience of a determinate sort is there, but there at first as a 'pure' fact. Motion originally simply is; only later is it confined to this thing or to that. Something like this is true of every experience, however complex, at the moment of its actual presence. Let the reader arrest himself in the act of reading this article now. Now this is a pure experience, a phenomenon, or datum, a mere that or content of fact. 'Reading' simply is, is there; and whether there for some one's consciousness, or there for physical nature, is a question not yet put. At the moment, it is there for

http://www.scry.com/ayer/cults/4415764.HTM

"Sidis, Boris THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SUGGESTION: A Research into the Subconscious Nature of Man and Society.

"Due to William James, Sidis became interested in psychology, and he became a leading American to popularize French psychopathology. Sidis' own work inspired interest in a psychological approach to insanity, and he influenced a number of young psychiatrists, including William Alanson White. In The Psychology of Suggestion (his first book), Sidis attempted to explain the nature of the subconscious.

"Professor Boris Sidis, of the Pathological Institute of New York, who recently concluded a series of psychological experiments at Harvard, is ruthlessly arrayed against popular religion as expressed in revivals, and his findings have been endorsed by Professor William James in an introduction to the former's published report. If there is in American University teachings a more fearless doctrine than the following as put forth by Professor Sidis and countenanced by Harvard's leading philosopher, I have not yet encountered it: Well may President Jordan of Stanford University exclaim: `Whiskey, cocaine and alcohol bring temporary insanity, and so does a revival of religion--one of those religious revivals in which men lose their reason and self-control. This is simply a form of drunkenness no more worthy of respect than the drunkenness that lies in the gutter!' `Professor Jordan,' comments the Harvard psychologist, as a result of his investigations, `was too mild in his expression, religious revivalism is a social bane; it is more dangerous to the life of society than drunkenness. As a sot, man falls below the brute; as a revivalist he sinks lower than the sot'."

"LC73-2415 New York, 1899 ISBN: 0405052251 illus. $25.95. Ayer Company Publishers Phone: (888)-267-7323 FAX: (603)-922-3348."

www.duke.edu/~hfs2/writings/philfinal.html     

Sidis and Goodhart, in their book Multiple Personality: An Experimental

 Investigation into the Nature of Human Individuality state that "personality

 is but relatively a unity, it is really a complexity of many subordinate units."

 This becomes clear when we think of how we act towards our parents or

 teachers and how we act towards our friends compared to that. Our

 actions, thoughts, and attitudes are directed by what Dennett

and Humphrey call our "Heads of Mind" (Dennett and Humphrey 80).

Daniel Kolak  calls this "persona" (Kolak, 364) but it essentially is the same

concept: an amassment  of characteristics gathered from experiences and

memories that form a personality  which in turn determines what we do,

think, like, or dislike. It is important to keep in  mind, that these

amassments do not necessarily require anything else but a brain. No

soul or other controlling unit is needed. Humphrey and Dennett even go so

far as to state as part of their fictive-self theory that "nobody really has a

soul-like agency inside them: we just find it useful to imagine the existence

of this conscious inner 'I' when we try to account for their behavior" (Dennett

and Humphrey 76).

Holger F. Siebrecht
Güven Güzeldere
Philosophy 43S.02
Final Paper

http://www.ask.ne.jp/~kasahara/multiple.htm

Multiple Personality Bibliography

http://www.gillmacmillan.ie/getintobusiness/dya.htm

"His father Boris was extremely influential in his upbringing, and he believed in

 teaching people to reason rather than to memorise, and to think of learning as

 play. His advice was simple: ‘Don’t try to memorise. Just try to understand,

 and then you can’t help remembering. Boris Sidis was an inspirational father

 and one might be forgiven for thinking that the father figure is vital in

 developing giftedness."

http://watarts.uwaterloo.ca/~pmerikle/papers/uncons-percept-full.html

Article entitled "Psychological Investigations of Unconscious Perception"

reviews "... the history of psychological investigations of unconscious

perception and summarizes the current status of experimental research in this

area of investigation." 

[Boris's theory, however, was that it is a matter of subconscious, not unconscious,

 perception. (See also William Sidis's Unconscious Intelligence.)]

http://www.indigostorm.net/astraea/household/books.html

List of books on the subject of multiple personality notes, "Sidis believed there

was such a thing as adult onset multiplicity, which could happen when a

physical injury occurred. He has a lot of case studies of people who never

showed signs of amnesia, dissociation or other selves until they were in an

accident, mostly when they had a head injury. This is a fascinating side trip."

[Note does not mention that Boris coined the term Multiple Personality and that

his was the very first book on the subject.]

http://www-med.stanford.edu/school/Psychiatry/PSTreatLab/dissocdisorder.html

"The phenomena of dissociation have themselves been dissociated from the

mainstream of psychiatry and psychiatric theory despite origins at the heart

of early psychiatric and psychological thought. William James, Boris Sidis,

Morton Prince, Joseph Breuer, Sigmund Freud, and Pierre Janet based their

diverse but influential theories of psychological functioning in large measure

on their observations of dissociation and its effects."

http://www.emory.edu/EDUCATION/mfp/james.html#odds

[A terrific website devoted to William James.]

http://www.psych.org/pnews/99-01-01/hx.html

Psychiatric News History Note on William Alanson White, M.D. 

"White's role in psychoanalysis probably began in the 1890s when he was able 

to work with psychologist Boris Sidis at what is now the New York State 

Psychiatric Institute. Sidis was exploring disassociation and hypnosis. With Smith 

Ely Jelliffe, he started a journal in 1913 called Psychoanalytic Review, which is still

published today." 

Boris was investigating not hypnosis, but what he called the

"hypnoidal state" which is more normal and therapeutically useful. Sidis,

co-authored Psychopathological Researches with White (and G.M. Parker) in

1902, but later went on to oppose psychoanalytic theory."

http://www.ulaval.ca/ikon/finaux/1-texque/imadem/CHAP08.HTML

"Déjà, le psychologue russo-américain Boris Sidis (1898) avait trouvé que

certains stimuli subliminaux permettaient aux sujets de deviner à quels

chiffres ou lettres ils avaient été soumis; cela, dans une proportion qui

dépassait indéniablement ce que le simple hasard aurait permis."

http://psych.utoronto.ca/~joordens/courses/PsyA01/Chapter9/sld009.htm

[College-class replication of an experiment Sidis reported in 1898.]

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ts/publisher-comment-form/083710226X/002-9782124-7696240

"Multiple Personality : Experimental Investigation into the Nature of Human Individuality

by Boris Sidis, Simon P. Goodhart"

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0405052251/qid%3D949886714/sr%3D1-2/002-9782124-7696240

"The Psychology of Suggestion : A Research into the Subconscious Nature of Man & Society by Boris Sidis. Try an out-of-print order 1-Click ordering unavailable for purchasing out-of-print items. ASIN: 0405052251 Availability: This title is out of print. Although it is no longer available from the publisher, we'll query our network of used bookstores for you and send an update within one to two weeks. Amazon.com Sales Rank: 600,798."

http://sulcus.berkeley.edu/mcb165/mcb165sp98tPaper/mcb165sp98R.manuscript/_865.html

More contemporary investigators have refined upon Janet's work, leading to alterations and improvements on the concept of MPD. An important change relates to the notion of dissociation. Pierre Janet had originally postulated that the onset of dissociation, or dissociative symptoms, was immediate and following stressful events. In contrast, modern researchers, most notably Boris Sidis and Morton Prince, regarded "dissociation as a process that exist(ed) in a continuum." (Boon and Daigler 1993)

http://www.gach.com/Gach/l0285-01.htm

American Journal of Insanity. Volume 56 No. 1. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1899. 12mo. 216pp. + front & rear ads. Printed gray wrappers. Wrappers chipped & slightly defective, else a very good copy, unopened. Contains Frederick Peterson's "Some of the Problems of the Alienist"; Carlos MacDonald's "The Legal Versus the Scientific Test of Insanity in Criminal Cases"; G. A. Blumer's "The Care of the Insane in Farm Dwellings"; Boris Sidis' "The Nature and Principles of Psychology"; H. A. Tomlinson's "The Puerperal Insanities"; A. T. Hobbs' "The Role of Wound Infection as a Factor in the Cause of Insanity"; Samuel Lyon's "The Desirability of Close Connection between the Psychopathological Laboratories and Hospitals for the Acute Insane"; W. L. Worcester's "Some Difficulties in the Retraction Theory"; James Cochran's "Treatment of the Sick and Insane in Persia"; Edward Cowles' "Progress in the Clinical Study of Psychiatry"; Henry Berkley's "Clinical Cases, IV.--Pseudo-Dementia Paralytica Uraemica". Inquire / Order $25.00

http://www.olwm.com/lds1/hc/hc1.html

Volume 1: Comprehensive History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day

The History of the Church of Jesus Christ in the New Dispensation properly begins with an account of the ancestry of Joseph Smith, the Prophet. This in view of efforts to account for the Prophet of the New Dispensation and what are regarded as his "more or less abnormal performances," in bringing into existence the Book of Mormon, and founding the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

"Professor Boris Sidis, of the Pathological Institute of New York, who recently concluded a series of psychological experiments at Harvard, is ruthlessly arrayed against popular religion as expressed in revivals, and his findings have been endorsed by Professor William James in an introduction to the former's published report. If there is in American University teachings a more fearless doctrine than the following as put forth by Professor Sidis and countenanced by Harvard's leading philosopher, I have not yet encountered it: Well may President Jordan of Stanford University exclaim: `Whiskey, cocaine and alcohol bring temporary insanity, and so does a revival of religion--one of those religious revivals in which men lose their reason and self-control. This is simply a form of drunkenness no more worthy of respect than the drunkenness that lies in the gutter!' `Professor Jordan,' comments the Harvard psychologist, as a result of his investigations, `was too mild in his expression, religious revivalism is a social bane; it is more dangerous to the life of society than drunkenness. As a sot, man falls below the brute; as a revivalist he sinks lower than the sot'."

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