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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![undoubtedly lie behind disease pro¬ cesses, whatever be the part played by micro-organisms or toxins in their production. One day, perhaps, the solar plexus will be allotted its rightful place in respect of psycho-physical precedence, and adjustment to the outer world. What we must appreciate is that every case, whether in general or special practice, has a subjective pyschological interest and presents what may be called an objective psycho¬ logical complex. It is true that we have no direct acquaintance with the minds of others : we appreciate their minds by the medium of signs : but equally we have no direct acquaintance with any form of disease in others : the disease is what we postulate to exist in the background of the signs. We now come to a point that, I con¬ fess, is one not too willingly conceded by some of our most eminent teachers, although it is at once grasped by those who are more accustomed to think than to teach. In Medicine, those [16]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29813256_0022.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
