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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![inferential evidence of other organ defect—as when the external auricle is malformed in a tinnitus patient—or suggest a widespread deficiency, as do the segmentally distributed skin defects found in association with neurasthenia. In the same way, many of the women with a “ neurotic abdomen ” have a fissured tongue, so that we can postu¬ late a Meckel’s diverticulum or some¬ thing of that sort, while a neurasthenic miner with lumbago probably has a sacralized fifth lumbar vertebra that has been jarred. The importance of such observations lies in this, that they reveal either con¬ stitutional or local inferiority to which may be transferred an emotional feeling that rightly pertains to something in the psychical life. To give a simple illustration. The actress with astig¬ matism, who desires not to appear on a certain occasion (because she fears her psychical nose will be out of joint) develops a headache (due to eye strain, she says) that gives her an excuse while satisfying her unacknowledged and [36]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29813256_0042.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
