Alan Gauld
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Alan Gauld (born 1932) is a British psychologist and parapsychologist.
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Gauld was born in Portland, Dorset, England, and attended Harvard University in 1956-57. He later earned an M.S. in 1958 and a PhD in 1962 from Emmanuel College. He taught psychology at Nottingham University, he was also President of the Society for Psychical Research from 1989 until 1992. His works as an editor include Poltergeists co-edited with Tony Cornell (1979) and Human Action and its Psychological Investigation co-edited with John Shotter (1980).[1]
He is most well known for his book Mediumship and Survival: A Century of Investigations (1984).[2]
Gauld has written that physical mediumship such as ectoplasm is the result of fraud, but has been gullible and fallen into the trap of believing that other Victorian mediums were actually genuine. According to Gould Leonora Piper and Mina Crandon both had supernatural abilities when in reality Crandon was revealed as a fraud (using a fake piece of liver as a "spirit" hand in her séances) and the "spirit" controls of Leonora Piper were alternate personalities.
[edit] Publications
- A History of Hypnotism (1992)
- Mediumship and Survival: A Century of Investigations (1984)
- The Founders of Psychical Research (1968)