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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![state, or mode of psychological reaction, to present external realities. Only thus can the “ present state ” of a patient be fully appreciated. But the physician must be prepared to do more : he must consider not only the psychological history of the in¬ dividual but his physiological life- history—his past physiological reactions —and his organic life-history—as indicated by the morphology of his organs and tissues and the manifest anthropological and endocrine types : in a word, by his lure of organic develop¬ ment as well as by his pathological state—physical and psychological. Only thus can the physician compre¬ hend in what manner, and as a result of what chains of circumstance, has the “ present state ”—physical, physio¬ logical, and psychological—come to be ; or, how it is that this person is reacting as he now does to the circum¬ stances in which he finds himself—cir¬ cumstances in respect of which the physician will take care, of course, to be fully advised. [66]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29813256_0072.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
