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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    them the doctor must appear as the Dens ex machina who, intervening at the right moment, adjusts the environ¬ ment to the childish capacity for response, at the same time that he strengthens the child’s desire to over¬ come, and weakens his impulse to “ make excuses.” With those of adult life it is other¬ wise. With them the whole history has to be brought out, sometimes slowly, sometimes more rapidly, so that the patient awakens to a sense of where his real weakness or error has been. The “ present ” error is sometimes, but not always, of the moral order : more often, I think, it is a failure in practical adjustment to daily life. Often, too, there is some unresolved ethical or intellectual problem. But there is always some unacknowledged error in the conduct of life, physical, psychical or spiritual, and the patient must come to realise it himself. This process of realisation may be slow, but sometimes the method that Nathan chose when he spoke to David may be [90]
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