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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![unacknowledgeable desire to vindicate her own importance. We may give her glasses : but her headaches will con¬ tinue, on suitable occasions ! Our war experiences help us to understand this. The shell-shocked man with ‘ cold feet/ who durst not acknowledge his cowardice, became deaf if he had a perforated drum : blind, if he had as¬ tigmatism or squint : paralysed in his legs, if he had spinal inferiority with hammer toes ; and wetted the bed if he had a varicocele and a long foreskin. So it is only the woman who dislikes her husband who, with a retroflexed uterus, or a prolapsed ovary, suffers dyspare- unia. She has no dyspareunia with her lover. Where there is a will not to do, there is always a way of escape from doing what should be done, and what we know ought to be done. But this is going too fast. Having completed the physical examination, in the way I suggest, we must proceed to examination of the pyschical situation. There are various methods of per¬ forming this, but none can be properly [37]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29813256_0043.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
