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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![Now, before again touching on what are usually called really practical details I would like to suggest as true, what all can easily verify, that certain forms of psychical distress are more or less definitely correlated with certain physi¬ cal complaints. The man or woman who complains of migraine or of trigeminal neuralgia is, I think, without exception, placed in some situation that gives rise to an unexpressed, or un¬ recognised emotion of, to use Adler’s words, rage and humiliation. The vertiginous neurotic is one who has constantly with him the fear of falling : morally, socially, or financially. Pat¬ ients with tinnitus are generally patients who refuse to listen to some imperative call and the kind of noise of which they complain often gives a key to the difficulty. Those who are neurotic asthmatics are obsessed by an urge towards economy (not always in respect of money), and who regret expenditure. The miser in a novel always wheezes ! Whilst patients with true or false angina are angry and [48]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29813256_0054.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
