During this period of study he spent a further year in Europe (Dresden, Bad Teplitz, Berlin, Geneva, Paris and Berlin), where he studied physiology, psychology and philosophy. Returning to medical school in 1865, James faced painful eye and back problems as well as a severe suicidal depression, yet managed to persevere and complete his M.D. Although he contracted a mild form of smallpox on the expedition, he recovered. In 1865, James took a hiatus from medical school and accompanied the Harvard biologist Louis Agassiz on a trip up the Amazon. Upon completing his bachelor’s degree in 1864, he entered Harvard’s Medical School. He entered Harvard in 1861 (the year the Civil War broke out). By the time he had completed his secondary education he had attained fluency in five languages. The young man attended ten different schools during a period of eight years in New York and also studied in London, Geneva, Paris, Dresden and Boston. At the behest of his father, James received an unorthodox education. His father, a man of independent means gained through inheritance, was associated with Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson and their transcendentalist circle. William James was born in New York City on 11 January 1842.
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