Nandor Fodor was a British and American parapsychologist

Parapsychology

The term parapsychology was coined in or around 1889 by philosopher Max Dessoir, and originates from para meaning "alongside", and psychology. The term was adopted by J.B. Rhine in the 1930s as a replacement for the term psychical research...

, psychologist

Psychology

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, author and journalist of Hungarian

Hungary

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 birth, one of the leading authorities on poltergeist

Poltergeist

A poltergeist is a paranormal phenomenon which consists of events alluding to the manifestation of an imperceptible entity. Such manifestation typically includes inanimate objects moving or being thrown about, sentient noises and, on some occasions, physical attacks on those witnessing the...

s, haunting and all kinds of paranormal phenomena usually associated with mediumship

Mediumship

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. Fodor, who was at one time Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud , born Sigismund Schlomo Freud , was an Austrian neurologist who founded the discipline of psychoanalysis...

's associate, wrote on subjects like prenatal development and dream interpretation, but is credited mostly for his magnum opus

Masterpiece

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, Encyclopedia of Psychic Science, first published in 1934. Among the subjects he closely studied was the case of Gef the talking mongoose

Gef the talking mongoose

Gef , referred to as the Talking Mongoose or the Dalby Spook, was a talking mongoose reported to inhabit a farmhouse known as Cashen's Gap near the hamlet of Dalby on the Isle of Man...

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Major works

• Encyclopedia of Psychic Science. London: Arthurs Press, 1934.
• The Haunted Mind: A Psychoanalyst Looks at the Super-natural. New York: Garrett Publications, 1959.
• New Approaches to Dream Interpretation. New York, 1951. Reprint, New Hyde Park, N.Y.: University Books, 1951.
• On the Trail of the Poltergeist. New York: Citadel Press, 1958.
• These Mysterious People. London: Rider, 1936.
• The Search For the Beloved. A Clinical Investigation of the Trauma of Birth and Pre-Natal Conditioning (1949.
• Fodor, Nandor, and Hereward Carrington. Haunted People. New York: Dutton, 1951.
• The Story of the Poltergeist down the Centuries. London: Rider, 1953.
• Between Two Worlds. New York: Paperback Library, 1964. (Опубликована посмертно)
• The Unaccountable. New York: Award Books, 1968.

External links

• Encyclopaedia of Psychic Science
• The Search For the Beloved. A Clinical Investigation of the Trauma of Birth and Pre-Natal Conditioning (1949)
• Freud, Jung, and Occultism. Nandor Fodor. New Hyde Park, N.Y.: University Books, 1971. 272 pp.