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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![corresponding to our highest and most conscious intelligence, presides over a lower level, that of the soul (in the old terminology) and that over the soma, or body. Suppose we parallel this, and speak of the conscious mind and brain, on the highest level ; the unconscious mind and sympathetic system, on the next ; and the viscera and animal life on the lowest. We then have a not unhelpful conception. Not very much unlike our analogy of the philosopher in his study ! Each level depends upon control from the higher level, and may be disturbed by disorder in the one below it. And, I need not emphasize how, according to Plotinus, the highest balance and harmony is attained only so far as the Nous, or highest level, is in accord with the highest perfection and intelligence of all. This, it may be said, is only, in other words, the doc¬ trine of the Christian Scientist and the Salvation Army Evangelist. Perhaps, but it is also, in effect, the doctrine, though differently expressed, of Plato, of Confucius, and of Buddha. [47 ]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29813256_0053.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
