“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.”

— Boris Sidis

Source: The Foundations of Normal and Abnormal Psychology (1914), p. 39

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American psychiatrist 1867–1923

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