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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![something much more than acquain¬ tance with the mere facts of medicine as taught in the schools. Unless there is a pretty wide knowledge of pyschical types, of life-situations, of trends of thought, and of human nature in all its aspects, psychological investigation is impossible. The wider our own per¬ sonal experiences, the greater our own knowledge of the human heart and mind as dissected in art and literature, and the fuller our acquaintance with the views held in respect of religious and philosophical problems, as well as of ethical difficulties, the more success¬ ful will our efforts be. Perhaps that is the meaning of the maxim that, at fifty, one is either a fool or a physician ! The important point is that for each neurotic there is, not only some imme¬ diate problem which is not being de¬ cided, and in respect of which there is a conflict, an attempted compromise or some abortive repression into the limbo of the unconscious, some putting away of what is unpleasant or unwelcome— there is also a special attitude towards [44]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29813256_0050.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
