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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![not so much directed to the patient as to the modification of the circum¬ stances of his life in a way that is not usually palatable to a misguided and obstinate parent. On the other hand, prolonged attempts at psychical investigation are seldom very useful when the patient is over fifty or fifty-five, though something can be achieved sometimes, if tried in the right way. But, what I may call psychotherapy has its fullest scope between the ages of perhaps twenty and forty. The aim of the physician must be, then, to help the patient to know him¬ self, and to understand the mechanism and arrangements that he has uncon¬ sciously constructed around his dis¬ turbed area of conflict. He must be led to see where is the difficulty : that compromise and indecision are no solu¬ tion. He must be shewn, or rather led, to see that adjustment to the family, and to society, and to ultimate prob¬ lems must be made. But the solution must not be dictated. The patient [56]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29813256_0062.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
