Migraine and other common neuroses : a psychological study / by F.G. Crookshank.

  • Francis Graham Crookshank
Date:
1926
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Credit: Migraine and other common neuroses : a psychological study / by F.G. Crookshank. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    others as a religious mal-adjustment. The sex-problem runs like a scarlet thread throughout. There is sex jealousy at home in the pre-sexual period : there is sexual mal-adjust¬ ment in the adult period when migraine is most intense and the problem is psychical as well as physical : the same motive may return or continue when physical sexuality is waning, but now as a psychical or ethical problem inter¬ fering with the attainment of the calm that is desired. This is not fanciful * it is obvious enough to anyone who cares to inquire and observe. Perhaps the easiest way to realise how similar are the hje-hnes of all migrainous persons is, in default of clinical experience, to lead the lives of the many great men who have been migrainous and who have recorded their physical sufferings. We find, not in their own accounts, but in their biographies, a certain recurrence of phrases and sentences : “ a shy sensitive boy ” ; “ much given to brooding ” ; unsympathetic parents ”; [82]
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