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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![Secondly, there is to be recognised a guiding tendency that is the result of past experience, ancestral as well as individual, for which satisfaction is somehow sought, in respect of every situation that arises. Thirdly, there is the past life history, determining why the tendency—the life-line—is as it is, and why the satisfaction is not directly sought ; the reason why it is sought alternatively, or, so to speak, vicari¬ ously. And, on the physical side, there is the relevant organ-inferiority that offers the excuse for organisation of a “functional illness,” and is so eagerly seized upon as the peg whereon is hung the vestment we wish to discard, so that we have not the burden of wearing it ; or that we wish to wear, and dare not ; or that looks to us like a spectre in the dark. There are almost as many methods of elucidating these matters clinically as there are theories of the mechanisms concerned. The chief theories and methods are those of Freud : of Jung : and of Adler. [40 ]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29813256_0046.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
