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THE average general practitioner has little time and opportunity for the study of text-books on the complicated, and in these days bewildering, subject of psychotherapy. To him, therefore, will be of especial value the publication of Dr. Crookshank's two lectures on migraine and other common neuroses. The book is a small one; it can be read in an hour, and the author's style is delightfully attractive. His views—even as expressed in the title—will, of course, arouse controversy, and some of his statements can be described only as startling. His reasoning that the mind may be the deciding factor in the etiology of dementia paralytica, because mental symptoms usually precede the appearance of physical signs, is unconvincing. Yet there is nothing in these pages which the neurologist or psychologist could dogmatically deny; and if the author's efforts to demonstrate the supremacy of the psychological factor in migraine should only turn the attention of physicians to the psychical aspect of all who are sick, the book will have served its purpose.
Migraine and other Common Neuroses: a Psychological Study.
By Dr. F. G. Crookshank. (Psyche Miniatures, Medical Series, No. 1.) Pp. 101. (London: Kegan Paul and Co., Ltd., 1926.) 2s. 6d. net.
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Migraine and other Common Neuroses: a Psychological Study . Nature 118, 223 (1926). https://doi.org/10.1038/118223d0
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