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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![utilised unless what is called the New Psychology be understood, at any rate in outline. The old psychology was a study of mind, based largely upon introspection, and so derived from investigation of intelligent, normal, and cultivated persons. It was governed largely by the assumption that the mind, like the brain and spinal cord, responds to stimulus in a predetermined sort of way. We tap the patella tendon, and the knee jerks. We present a stimulus to the mind, and we observe a normal response. So the psychical response was formerly held to be determined by the stimulus. Mats nous avons change tout cela. The new psychology, largely based upon study of the neurotic, implies another theory. We examine the response—that is to say, the behaviour—of the patient, and then work back, seeking, not for the sort of stimulus that would or should make what we think a ‘ normal so act, but for the tendency that the patient is seeking to gratify by his, to us, odd behaviour. Thus, a busy man com- [38]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29813256_0044.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
