Richard Noll
Biographic Data
| ID | 105068 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Noll |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard |
| FAMILY NAME | Noll |
| SIGNATURE | NOLL R |
| AFFILIATIONS | DeSales University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8771-9920 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 90 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Feeling and smelling psychosis
Some limitations of ‘category work’ in the history of psychiatry are illustrated via the example of attempts within US alienism and psychiatry since 1889 to identify psychosis and its prodromes. A slowly evolving acceptance of the need for specifiable biological disease concepts, distinct diagnostic categories and defined boundaries of the ‘before and after’ of psychosis among some elite physicians challenged widespread vernacular methods of diag…
Dementia praecox, 1886
Historians of medicine delight in reconstructing the life course – one might say career – of disease concepts. ‘Biographies of disease’ now appear as formal serial offerings by publishers (see, for example, Healy, 2008), granting them a celebrity status equal to that of famous physicians. To borrow the language of historical sociologist Andrew Abbott (2001: 247–9) regarding the study of individual lives, disease histories are framed by ‘trajector…
Kraepelin's `lost biological psychiatry'? Autointoxication, organotherapy and surgery for dementia praecox
Kraepelin believed that a chronic metabolic autointoxication, perhaps arising from the sex glands, eventually caused chemical damage to the brain and led to the symptoms of dementia praecox. The evolution of Kraepelin's autointoxication theory of dementia praecox is traced through the 5th to 8th (1895 to 1913) editions of his textbook, Psychiatrie. The historical context of autointoxication theory in medicine is explored in depth to enable the un…
Classic Text No. 72 Non-dementia non-praecox
In February 1919 the Harvard neuropathologist Elmer Ernst Southard (1876—1920) presented a paper in which he outlined his reasons for dropping the term `dementia praecox' in favour of a competing diagnostic concept and term, `schizophrenia'. Southard's criticisms reflected the opinion of many US psychiatrists at that time, leading to the replacement of Emil Kraepelin's dementia praecox by Eugen Bleuler's schizophrenia in US psychiatry by the mid-…
Infectious insanities, surgical solutions
After his 17-year-old son suddenly developed a chronic psychotic illness in 1905, Bayard Taylor Holmes (1852–1924), a Chicago physician and surgeon with no psychiatric training, conducted both library and laboratory research on dementia praecox, as described in Part 1 of this two-part study. By late 1915 he believed he had found support for a focal infection theory of its aetiology – an ergot-like toxaemia caused by faecal stasis in the caecum. H…
Infectious insanities, surgical solutions
Part I of this article on Bayard Taylor Holmes (1852–1924), a Chicago physician and surgeon, detailed his laboratory research on dementia praecox and his presumed discovery in 1915 of evidence in support of a focal infection theory of its aetiology. In May 1916 he began to experiment with a rational therapy based on this theory: abdominal surgery and daily irrigations of the colon. He operated first on his own son, who had been afflicted with dem…
The blood of the insane
The history of serological investigations of the blood of the insane is traced from the initial such study in 1854 by a solitary Scottish asylum physician, who counted the blood cells of his lunatic patients under a weak microscope, to the January 2005 announcement by an international team of geneticists of the development of a genomic blood test that can differentially diagnose schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. The story of the first claim of …
The American Reaction to Dementia Praecox, 1900
The jung cult
1The Historical Context of C. G. Jung11Ch. 1The Problem of the Historical Jung13Ch. 2The Fin de Siecle27Ch. 3Freud, Haeckel, and Jung: Naturphilosophie, Evolutionary Biology, and Secular Regeneration40Ch. 4Fin-de-Siecle Occultism and Promises of Rebirth58Ch. 5Volkisch Utopianism and Sun Worship75Ch. 6Wandlungen und Symbole der Libido: Solar Mysticism as Science109Pt. 2Prelude to a Cult: Chronology and Biography139Ch. 7Spirits, Memory Images, and …
Styles of psychiatric practice, 1906-1925
Multiple Personality and the Complex Theory
What Has Really Been Learned About Shamanism
Within anthropology, investigations of shamans and their altered states of consciousness have followed some of the prescriptive problems inherited from the discipline of psychology, coloring the assumptions and perspectives of students of shamanism. These inherited problems include the following: conscious/volitional versus unconscious/involuntary mentalisms; contentual objectivism versus contentual subjectivism; environmentalism versus nativism;…
Abstracts and Reviews
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Abstracts and Reviews
NEXT ARTICLEAbstracts and Reviews : THE ETHNOGRAPHY OF CANNIBALISM edited by PAULA BROWN and DONALD TUZIN, a special publication of the Society for Psychological Anthropology, Washington, D. C. 1983. US $7.50
Mental Imagery Cultivation as a Cultural Phenomenon
The ability to experience mental imagery is innate in human beings. "Mental imagery cultivation" is proposed to identify technological traditions devoted to the deliberate, repeated induction of enhanced mental imagery, usually in select individuals. Mental imagery enhancement training increases the vividness and the controlledness of mental imagery for its functional and adaptive value. Mental imagery cultivation is usually embedded within magic…
Reply to Lex
Shamanism and Schizophrenia
Shamanism and schizophrenia are examined as altered states of consciousness. A state-specific approach to the phenomenology of these altered states is employed to demonstrate that the existence in the anthropological literature of the "schizophrenia metaphor" of shamanism and its altered states is untenable. A current psychiatric diagnostic manual is utilized to show that significant phenomenological differences exist between the shamanic and sch…
Mental Imagery Cultivation as a Cultural Phenomenon
The ability to experience mental imagery is innate in human beings. "Mental imagery cultivation" is proposed to identify technological traditions devoted to the deliberate, repeated induction of enhanced mental imagery, usually in select individuals. Mental imagery enhancement training increases the vividness and the controlledness of mental imagery for its functional and adaptive value. Mental imagery cultivation is usually embedded within magic…
Shamanism and Schizophrenia
Shamanism and schizophrenia are examined as altered states of consciousness. A state-specific approach to the phenomenology of these altered states is employed to demonstrate that the existence in the anthropological literature of the "schizophrenia metaphor" of shamanism and its altered states is untenable. A current psychiatric diagnostic manual is utilized to show that significant phenomenological differences exist between the shamanic and sch…
Feeling and smelling psychosis
Some limitations of ‘category work’ in the history of psychiatry are illustrated via the example of attempts within US alienism and psychiatry since 1889 to identify psychosis and its prodromes. A slowly evolving acceptance of the need for specifiable biological disease concepts, distinct diagnostic categories and defined boundaries of the ‘before and after’ of psychosis among some elite physicians challenged widespread vernacular methods of diag…
More on Mental Imagery and Shamanism
Abstracts and Reviews
NEXT ARTICLEAbstracts and Reviews : THE ETHNOGRAPHY OF CANNIBALISM edited by PAULA BROWN and DONALD TUZIN, a special publication of the Society for Psychological Anthropology, Washington, D. C. 1983. US $7.50
Shamanism and Schizophrenia
Shamanism and schizophrenia are examined as altered states of consciousness. A state-specific approach to the phenomenology of these altered states is employed to demonstrate that the existence in the anthropological literature of the "schizophrenia metaphor" of shamanism and its altered states is untenable. A current psychiatric diagnostic manual is utilized to show that significant phenomenological differences exist between the shamanic and sch…
Reply to Lex
Abstracts and Reviews
NEXT ARTICLEAbstracts and Reviews : THE ETHNOGRAPHY OF CANNIBALISM edited by PAULA BROWN and DONALD TUZIN, a special publication of the Society for Psychological Anthropology, Washington, D. C. 1983. US $7.50
Mental Imagery Cultivation as a Cultural Phenomenon
The ability to experience mental imagery is innate in human beings. "Mental imagery cultivation" is proposed to identify technological traditions devoted to the deliberate, repeated induction of enhanced mental imagery, usually in select individuals. Mental imagery enhancement training increases the vividness and the controlledness of mental imagery for its functional and adaptive value. Mental imagery cultivation is usually embedded within magic…
Abstracts and Reviews
More on Mental Imagery and Shamanism
What Has Really Been Learned About Shamanism
Within anthropology, investigations of shamans and their altered states of consciousness have followed some of the prescriptive problems inherited from the discipline of psychology, coloring the assumptions and perspectives of students of shamanism. These inherited problems include the following: conscious/volitional versus unconscious/involuntary mentalisms; contentual objectivism versus contentual subjectivism; environmentalism versus nativism;…
Multiple Personality and the Complex Theory
Styles of psychiatric practice, 1906-1925
The jung cult
1The Historical Context of C. G. Jung11Ch. 1The Problem of the Historical Jung13Ch. 2The Fin de Siecle27Ch. 3Freud, Haeckel, and Jung: Naturphilosophie, Evolutionary Biology, and Secular Regeneration40Ch. 4Fin-de-Siecle Occultism and Promises of Rebirth58Ch. 5Volkisch Utopianism and Sun Worship75Ch. 6Wandlungen und Symbole der Libido: Solar Mysticism as Science109Pt. 2Prelude to a Cult: Chronology and Biography139Ch. 7Spirits, Memory Images, and …
The American Reaction to Dementia Praecox, 1900
Infectious insanities, surgical solutions
After his 17-year-old son suddenly developed a chronic psychotic illness in 1905, Bayard Taylor Holmes (1852–1924), a Chicago physician and surgeon with no psychiatric training, conducted both library and laboratory research on dementia praecox, as described in Part 1 of this two-part study. By late 1915 he believed he had found support for a focal infection theory of its aetiology – an ergot-like toxaemia caused by faecal stasis in the caecum. H…
Infectious insanities, surgical solutions
Part I of this article on Bayard Taylor Holmes (1852–1924), a Chicago physician and surgeon, detailed his laboratory research on dementia praecox and his presumed discovery in 1915 of evidence in support of a focal infection theory of its aetiology. In May 1916 he began to experiment with a rational therapy based on this theory: abdominal surgery and daily irrigations of the colon. He operated first on his own son, who had been afflicted with dem…
The blood of the insane
The history of serological investigations of the blood of the insane is traced from the initial such study in 1854 by a solitary Scottish asylum physician, who counted the blood cells of his lunatic patients under a weak microscope, to the January 2005 announcement by an international team of geneticists of the development of a genomic blood test that can differentially diagnose schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. The story of the first claim of …
Kraepelin's `lost biological psychiatry'? Autointoxication, organotherapy and surgery for dementia praecox
Kraepelin believed that a chronic metabolic autointoxication, perhaps arising from the sex glands, eventually caused chemical damage to the brain and led to the symptoms of dementia praecox. The evolution of Kraepelin's autointoxication theory of dementia praecox is traced through the 5th to 8th (1895 to 1913) editions of his textbook, Psychiatrie. The historical context of autointoxication theory in medicine is explored in depth to enable the un…
Classic Text No. 72 Non-dementia non-praecox
In February 1919 the Harvard neuropathologist Elmer Ernst Southard (1876—1920) presented a paper in which he outlined his reasons for dropping the term `dementia praecox' in favour of a competing diagnostic concept and term, `schizophrenia'. Southard's criticisms reflected the opinion of many US psychiatrists at that time, leading to the replacement of Emil Kraepelin's dementia praecox by Eugen Bleuler's schizophrenia in US psychiatry by the mid-…
Dementia praecox, 1886
Historians of medicine delight in reconstructing the life course – one might say career – of disease concepts. ‘Biographies of disease’ now appear as formal serial offerings by publishers (see, for example, Healy, 2008), granting them a celebrity status equal to that of famous physicians. To borrow the language of historical sociologist Andrew Abbott (2001: 247–9) regarding the study of individual lives, disease histories are framed by ‘trajector…
Feeling and smelling psychosis
Some limitations of ‘category work’ in the history of psychiatry are illustrated via the example of attempts within US alienism and psychiatry since 1889 to identify psychosis and its prodromes. A slowly evolving acceptance of the need for specifiable biological disease concepts, distinct diagnostic categories and defined boundaries of the ‘before and after’ of psychosis among some elite physicians challenged widespread vernacular methods of diag…
Psychology (15 works) · Psychoanalysis (11 works) · History (10 works) · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices (9 works) · Psychiatry (9 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Neurology and Historical Studies (7 works) · Dementia praecox (6 works)