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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![said to be no “ organic disease.’’ So they find these cases negligible, as annoying to their self-confidence ! If a person is disturbed in his mind without apparent adequate cause, it is either because he has organic or chemi¬ cal change somewhere about him, or because he is a “ functional case ” not worth bothering about ! If such people get well after treatment by surgery or drugs, it is proof that the materialistic view is correct ! If they don’t, they are hustled on one side as pestilent knaves, or consigned to a lunatic asylum ! Anyway, they are got rid of, somehow or another, if indeed they do not commit suicide first. In the meantime, under influence of such notions as these, countless operations are performed, and countless treatments are carried through, on patients who could be successfully treated by what we will call psycho-therapy. Sometimes the result of the surgical treatment appears successful ; but the method adopted is that of burning down the house to cook the pork chops, or of removing the [23] c](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29813256_0029.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
