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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![regard mind and matter as different names given to different aspects of what is but one. According to them we speak of matter when we see what is outside ourselves, and of mind when we refer to what we are subjectively. I am not at all sure that there is not a catch in this notion when we come to apply it to psychology and to physiology ; but it is very useful in medicine. Con¬ ceive a man who is shut up in his study in the upper story of his house. He is in the world of pure mind. He becomes aware of discord, commotion, and dis¬ comfort. He looks out of the window, and he sees what is going on outside, in the world of matter. No explanation there. He leans out and sees the walls of his house, as does a man who regards his own body. All seems in order. He retires again and shuts the windows, but the disturbance and commotion, for which he sees no cause when he looks out of the window, continue. There is, as a matter of fact, interna] discord in the kitchen—the region of the viscera—disturbing his emotion a] [30 ]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29813256_0036.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
