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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![resentful “ at heart ” the ordinary case of cardiac neurosis suffers from fear, from anxiety, and, very often, from unacknowledged or unsatisfied sexual desire. It is odd how common phraseology helps us. We speak of a maddening head-ache, say we feel sick about some¬ thing, have anger in our heart, or are in a piddling funk. These verbal combinations indicate those psychical correlatives of physical states which were perfectly well known to the Hebrew prophets and psalmists. Nay : there is far more truth than we acknowledge in the Graeco-Roman correlation between the bile, black bile, lymph and blood, and the emotions symbolized when we speak of being liverish, splenetic, phlegmatic, and sanguine. The flatulent dyspeptic has usually reason to resent, or even loathe, that which he is compelled, or thinks himself compelled to swallow : con¬ stipation is associated with sexual repression and avarice : diarrhoea, [49]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29813256_0055.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
