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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![life in general which is adopted in face of almost every problem of adjustment, whether in connection with the family, the school, the opposite sex, society, one’s profession, and religious, or irreligious inclinations. This attitude, however coloured, is generally one of indecision in practice, of irresolution, of procrastination and evasion, so that the conflict is never settled, and compensa¬ tions for what is denied, satisfactions which are not openly claimed, excuses for what shames, insurances for what is feared—in fact, a whole cloud of “ mechanisms ” and arrangements— are set up. So the child complains of stomach-ache when, for some reason of which he guards the secret, he does not want to go to school ! Such is a simple case, and in practice, none is quite so simple as this. Yet there are certain very common correlations, as we shall see. Now, while the first object of the psychical inquisition is to lay bare all such mechanisms and arrange¬ ments, just as, in the clinical wards, [45 ]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29813256_0051.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
