Migraine and other common neuroses : a psychological study / by F.G. Crookshank.
- Francis Graham Crookshank
- Date:
- 1926
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Migraine and other common neuroses : a psychological study / by F.G. Crookshank. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![THE PSYCHOLOGICAL INTEREST IN THE COMMON NEUROSES When, as an Asylum Medical Officer some thirty years ago, I first began to recognize that every person who is ill is ill psychically as well as physi¬ cally, I hoped and believed that the rectification of disordered psychical states was best brought about by the rectification of the disordered physical states; just as “ that Kriischen feeling ” is said, and sometimes is, to be brought about by a dose of salts. But, apart from my experience in particular cases, I fear that I accepted this as a principle of general value because at that time I believed in the odd sort of psycho¬ physical parallelism, bred by agnosti¬ cism out of materialism, then so * A lecture given before the North-East London Clinical Society : 1925. [9]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29813256_0015.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
