“It is time that the medical and teaching profession should realize that functional neurosis is not congenital, not inborn, not hereditary, but is the result of a defective, fear-inspiring education in early child life.”

—  Boris Sidis

Source: Nervous Ills their Cause and Cure (1922), p. 285

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American psychiatrist 1867–1923

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