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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![appears to him to be a bodily illness. With Adler’s method, the relation of the physical symptoms to a psychical state can be confidently pointed out at once. Again, transference, by which is meant the development of an attractive or repellent emotional state in regard to the physician, is better avoided, as under Freudian analysis it is not. Under Adler’s technique, with less insistence on the sexual factor in any case, and with hardly any in some, the feeling that the patient comes to enter¬ tain towards the physician is, as it should be, free from embarrassment to either. But it may still be desirable that the physician be one who, if not an actual stranger, is at any rate not a participant in the social life enjoyed by the patient. His attitude should be, if if not that of a pedagogue or a priest, at any rate one that involves a certain degree of apartness, of authority, and of prestige. One word in conclusion. If a single formula is required in which to sum¬ marise the teachings of Freud, of Jung, [58]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29813256_0064.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
