Talk:Boris Sidis

Error
Boris Sidis had no grandchildren. Boris had two children, William and Helena, but neither of whom had children. However, Boris' wife, Sarah, came from the large Mandelbaum family. Sarah's sister, Bessie, was Clifton Fadiman's mother.

This source correctly identifies Clifton as Sarah's nephew, William's cousin, and Bessie as William's aunt. This source does not. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nabuking (talk • contribs) 10:42, 22 November 2012 (UTC)

Teacher at Harvard
The article doesn't mention that Boris Sidis taught psychology at Harvard. --Jagz 19:29, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

Sentence removed without explanation
The following sentence was removed from the article twice by Chryen without providing a reason or explanation: "He was a major practitioner of a particularly American version of the "rest cure," using a large compound in New Hampshire." --Jagz 00:18, 28 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Whoever wrote that sentence never read anything by Boris Sidis. Sidis regarded it as "suicidal to indulge the patient and suggest to him a rest cure" . Moreover, Sidis insisted that "[r]est is harmful to the neurotic" and "[w]hat the patient needs is work, work, and work" to "return to a normal, active life" . Thus, Sidis certainly did not employ any "rest cure" in his New Hampshire compound, making it perfectly appropriate to remove inaccuracies from the article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Chyren (talk • contribs)

Picture
I replaced the picture for a different one. The reason is the other was noisy. Does this one look ok? -- JonatasM 07:38, 28 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Mixed analogies: "Noisy" is related to hearing. "Look" is related to vision.96.248.101.32 (talk) 23:07, 27 February 2018 (UTC)DeAndruw Harris

Teaching methods
It may be instructive to include a section that describes his teaching methods, the ones used to rear his precocious son, William. Does anyone have sufficient resources to do so? Dylan Knight Rogers (talk) 22:43, 30 March 2008 (UTC)


 * yeah, me lol 179.6.160.99 (talk) 00:19, 4 June 2024 (UTC)

Grandfather of Clifton Fadiman
"He was the maternal grandfather of Clifton Fadiman, the noted American intellectual."

Maybe so, and our Clifton Fadiman calls him grandfather, but also identifies his mother as Grace Fadiman nee Mendelbaum. (I have not marked this article, only that one.)

"See External Links for source of much of the details of Sidis's life from unpublished archive documents by his wife and daughter."

Better, all children should be identified. And if daughter Grace(?) took her mother's maiden name although her mother did not retain it, that may be notable if the reason is known. --P64 (talk) 17:20, 13 March 2012 (UTC)

Clifton Fadiman (b. 1904) was Sarah Mandelbaum Sidis's nephew, according to Amy Wallace's book about William James Sidis, so Boris Sidis was Fadiman's uncle, not his grandfather or his great-uncle. Boris and Sarah Sidis had two children, William James Sidis (b. 1898) and Helena (not Grace) Sidis (b. 1908). Fadiman's mother's name was Grace Elizabeth, according to other biographical entries about him. Most likely she was Sarah Mandelbaum Sidis's sister, and her maiden name was Mandelbaum. 24.158.146.194 (talk) 17:03, 28 June 2012 (UTC)

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Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud the man of the cocaine for all, he attached all to a sexual tension, dreams and a clash with parents, nice way to mislead all analysis to "against those two/your family" (sometimes can be, but as general receipt,....

For example Sigmund Freud suppossed that the pain of someone on a losed arm is a signal of restrained sexual frustrations and familiy crash,.... crap. It is now solved just with a mirror! the brain use visual feedback for fine tuning of electric neuron signals to operate the body, as the brain can not see the arm, it did not release the electric tension in the correspondent neuron, ending in a pain, the mirror allows to see your "other arm" in the place of the one failing, you just release the tension, open the arm, the brain take the order of muscle tension release, and the pain is gone! (nice&simple)

Sigmund Freud was sinlose, as Boris Sidis appointed. --188.171.58.156 (talk) 08:03, 23 October 2019 (UTC)