1. Nandor Fodor was a British and American parapsychologist, psychoanalyst, author and journalist of Hungarian origin.
17 Facts About Nandor Fodor
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Nandor Fodor received a doctorate in law from the Royal Hungarian University of Science in Budapest.
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Nandor Fodor moved to New York to work as a journalist and to Britain in 1929 where he worked for a newspaper company.
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Nandor Fodor was one of the leading authorities on poltergeists, haunting and paranormal phenomena usually associated with mediumship.
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Nandor Fodor was at one time Sigmund Freud's associate and wrote on subjects like prenatal development and dream interpretation, although he is mostly credited for his magnum opus, Encyclopedia of Psychic Science, first published in 1934.
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Nandor Fodor was the London correspondent for the American Society for Psychical Research.
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Nandor Fodor worked as an editor for the Psychoanalytic Review and was a member of the New York Academy of Sciences.
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Nandor Fodor published skeptical newspaper articles on mediumship, which caused opposition from spiritualists.
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Nandor Fodor was the father of Andrea Nandor Fodor Litkei, composer, author, soloist and wife of Ervin Litkei.
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Nandor Fodor pioneered the theory that poltergeists are external manifestations of conflicts within the subconscious mind rather than autonomous entities with minds of their own.
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In 1938, Nandor Fodor investigated the Thornton Heath poltergeist case that involved Mrs Forbes.
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Nandor Fodor was attacked in the Spiritualist newspaper, Psychic News which he sued for libel.
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Nandor Fodor published two scientific papers on poltergeist phenomena, The Psychoanalytic Approach to the Problems of Occultism and The Poltergeist, Psychoanalyzed.
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The psychologist Robert Baker and the skeptical investigator Joe Nickell wrote that, in most cases, Nandor Fodor discovered ghosts are "pure inventions of the hauntee's subconscious" and praised Nandor Fodor's book The Haunted Mind as vastly entertaining.
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Nandor Fodor believed that a pregnant mother could communicate telepathically with the mind and body of her unborn child.
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Nandor Fodor held that the mother could cause physical and psychological events in her unborn child depending on her state of mind.
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Science writer Martin Gardner wrote in 1957 that although Nandor Fodor had contributed to respectable psychoanalytical journals his views on telepathy were pseudoscience.