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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![in place, is now obsolete, save only in medicine ; and for those who are inter¬ ested in modern psychology has little value. This is why, in the medical schools, where Victorian Science is still firmly embedded in medieval meta¬ physics, there is no clear teaching in respect of the psychological interest. One cannot accept the results of modern psycho-therapeutics so long as one believes that the only disease worth bothering about is something that “ attacks ” the patient, that makes a noise like a murmur, and that can be seen on a plate after death—when we have failed to cure the patient ! People who think thus consider psychiatry a special method, that has nothing to do with really respectable medicine, but which may be employed, like violet rays, or a change of air, for those wretched cases “ which have nothing the matter with them.” Now, roughly speaking, there are three sets of views which may be said to be held in medicine concerning the relation between body and mind. And [21 ]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29813256_0027.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
