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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![attempted. The one will say that, because the disease is organic, only surgery can help : the other will say that he will not be convinced the dis¬ ease requires surgical aid until psycho¬ logical investigation has proved use¬ less. Each will dehne the terms used in his own way: the surgeon, by “ organic,” means something he thinks he should treat. The psychologist, by “ psychical,” means something he thinks he should treat. And so on. lhe man who does not believe in the supremacy of mind over matter will “go for” material remedies: the man who believes in that supremacy will avoid exclusive reliance on drugs and surgery until psychical resources have failed. In further illustration of my point, let me remind you that, in the Far East, disease is generally regarded as the result of the abstraction of some¬ thing spiritual from the body. Western races, on the whole, consider disease to be the expression of something added. In bygone centuries, this something [19]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29813256_0025.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
