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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![sometimes with a desire to be rid of this or that ; and so-called colitis, not so much with a repression of sexuality as with an unsatisfied desire for sexual gratification. The physio¬ logical explanation of this is that the colon (though not the small intestine) is associated, via the sacral autonomic system, with the sexual viscera. Similar sympathetic associations can be traced in some other cases, but this is obvious, and the transference of nervous tension can be easily understood. Sexual neuroses are commonly associated, I think, with remorse or self-dissatis¬ faction in connection with sexual action. The man who is impotent with a prostitute may be so protecting him¬ self against sin and infection ; the syphilophobic has always, I think, fear or remorse for past or present wrong doing in his mind, and is trying in¬ directly to satisfy his conscience, or protect himself in respect of what he has not the moral courage to renounce. Paralysis of the functional type carries often the same kind of explanation, and [50]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29813256_0056.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
