Conolly Norman

Conolly Norman (12 March 1853 – 23 February 1908[1]) was an Irish alienist, or psychiatrist, of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

General Paralysis of the Insane.Norman was born on 12 March 1853 at All Saints' Glebe, Newtown Cunningham, County Donegal, Ireland.

He remained in that post until 1880 when he joined the staff of the Bethlem Royal Hospital in London where he worked under the prominent English alienist Sir George Savage.

While the Richmond asylum prior to Norman's arrival has been described as primitive and prisonlike[1] this is perhaps to overlook the international praise that his predecessor, John Lalor had received, particularly in regard to his educational initiatives in establishing a national school for the patients in the grounds of the hospital.

[6] In any case, by 1904, Connolly could assert like a growing number of reforming alienists, that Emil Kraepelin's dementia praecox (a concept intimately linked with schizophrenia) was not incurable.