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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![would have been maintained in better working order. There is, however, just one other trend of thought that is not at all unhelpful, and that would, I think, receive greater attention had it not such a definitely theological conno¬ tation. I mean the dualism of St. Thomas Aquinas, now the official sys¬ tem of the Roman Catholic Church, according to which primary matter is informed by spirit, of varying grade, so that each object, or substance, is com¬ posed of welded matter and spirit, and therefore is what it is. In this way the ultimate supremacy of spirit or mind is secured, while the dual aspect is not lost sight of. The non-theo- logical view which comes nearest to this is the naturalistic one, just referred to. But clearly, on any shewing, for each of us, it is through our own mind that we come nearest to reality ; it is by own own mind that we must control our body ; and it is only by discussion of the various notions put forward that we can understand the issues, even if [32]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29813256_0038.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
