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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    told me, after several interviews, that his first attack occurred when, as a very small boy, he had been taken for a walk by his father and ridiculed for his inability to answer simple questions in mental arithmetic. And, added, the patient, “ I remember, and now see, that afterwards I had headaches when my father asked me to walk with him, because I then got out of the walks. Again, a friend of my own recently told me that he distinctly remembers his “ first attack ” as coming on when, at four or five years of age, an attempt was made to teach him music, and he was ridiculed for stupidity. Ever after the attempt to read music brought on a “sick headache/’ and so im¬ munity alike from music and from ridicule was secured. In a third case, a little girl of great ability (pushed on one side in favour of less talented brothers) developed headaches when her precocious intelligence was regarded as comical or ridiculous. Now, in adult life, and daily in contact with men whom she controls in business, migraine [85]
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