Pederson-Krag, Geraldine Huanayra(1901-1995)

views updated

Pederson-Krag, Geraldine Huanayra(1901-1995)

Psychoanalytic psychiatrist with interests in parapsychology. She was born on July 23, 1901, in Schenectady, New York. She was a member of the Royal College of Surgeons and a licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians, London. She began her medical career as an assistant surgeon and house physician at Westminster Hospital, London, but moved to New York at the beginning of the 1930s and held various positions through the next three decades. In 1960 she became the director of Huntington Township Mental Health Clinic. Over the years she has authored one book in a specialized area of concern, Personality Factors in Work and Employment (1955), and various articles in the Psychoanalytic Quarterly. She took a special interest in telepathy and clairvoyance. Pederson-Krag died June 23, 1995.

Sources:

Pederson-Krag, Geraldine H. "Telepathy and Repression." Psychoanalytic Quarterly 16 (1947).