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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![psychical disorder, and that, when there is psychical disorder, there is also some physical disorder. This is the true meaning of the phrase : mens sana in corpore sano, and of its complement : mens insana in corpore insano. Realisa¬ tion of this is one of the elementary experiences of mankind : so elementary indeed, that it is overlooked by doctors who fail to see the physical signs in insanity, and the psychical disorder in what we call bodily disease. It is true that in some cases the physical aspect apparently predominates, as when we speak of “ organic ” disease ; in others, the psychical as obviously pre¬ dominates, and we say the patient is “ mental/’ But there is a vast range of cases in which the psychical and physical disorders seem as it were nearly balanced. We dismiss such cases from our notice, calling them “ functional.” But that does not help the patient. It is to these cases, chiefly, that I would now direct attention, especially as for them the whole prob¬ lem is easily resolved, if, without [ii]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29813256_0017.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
