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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![at last. But his wife had suddenly become a hopeless invalid. He denied any early associations that might have explained his history, and we went on talking. Suddenly he flushed and sweated, and said, “ Doctor, you are right. When at school I was thrashed for a lie 1 never told : I thought of suicide and fainted in chapel the next day. It is that pain, that faintness, that I have ever since suffered when I have felt punished unfairly.” After this conversation, the pain never returned. Moreover, the lipoma disappeared. Was the lipoma a result of concentration, unconsciously, on the painful memory ? Or, was the lipoma an excuse for its unconscious persis¬ tence ? But now, the physical and psychical diagnosis being made, if not in detail, at any rate in such broad outline as is possible at an early stage, let us turn specifically to the therapeutic manage¬ ment of the case. Let the patient understand that there is both a physical and a psychical side to his unwellness, [52]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29813256_0058.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
