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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![idea that the psychological investiga¬ tion of the neuroses means the dis¬ cussion of sexual topics with young girls ; and psycho-therapy, the recom¬ mendation of fornication. I recently heard a celebrated surgeon say: “ Freud : oh ! that’s the feller who savs copulation is the cure for every¬ thing ! ” No : when the sexual com¬ plexes are predominant, the patient suff¬ ers, not because he or she is not physi¬ cally gratified, but because, for one reason or another, a wrong attitude has been taken up in respect of the practical and ethical problems involved in Human Life and by Human Conduct. And this leads us towards the second point. Now-a-days we are far too apt to explain ” all tendencies and aber¬ rations of emotion and conduct as determined by and dependent upon the nature and balances of our internal gland-secretions. It is true that, in clinical medicine, by administering certain substances such as thyroid gland or pituitary, we can sometimes effect wonderful changes in mental and [61]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29813256_0067.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
