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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![rather subtle practical value. Postu¬ lating that neither the one nor the other process has the upper hand, and that we cannot explain the connection between the two, it allows us to say that it is sometimes more convenient to tackle what we call the physical series—to rub in mercury in order that a gumma absorb : and sometimes better to tackle what we call the psychical—to employ suggestion or psycho-analysis in “ appropriate ''cases. This kind of facing-both-ways leads to what used to be called eclecticism : one kind of case is treated by drugs or surgery : another is sent to the asylum or the analyst. But, amongst eclectics, the functional neuroses tend to fall between two stools. This is the grave fault in the neurology of Hughlings Jackson and his pupils. A quite different point of view— which I will call naturalistic—is, how¬ ever, now coming into vogue. Those who adopt this outlook are neither ‘ materialistic ’ nor ‘ spiritualistic ’ in their interpretation of the world. They [29]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29813256_0035.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
