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Psychosomatic correlations in migraine

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A case of migraine is presented which illustrates the need for a thorough dissection of the character structure in psychosomatic problems, in order to determine why hostility is being generated and why it cannot be overtly expressed. It is possible that where migraine “burns itself out” with advancing years or where a spontaneous cure develops that the character structure has altered itself so that hostility is either diminished or its outward expression enhanced. The diversion of hostility from autonomic channels can occur without a conscious realization on the part of the patient of many of his deeper problems and conflicts.

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  1. Kings Park State Hospital, Kings Park, N. Y.

    Lewis R. Wolberg M. D.

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Wolberg, L.R. Psychosomatic correlations in migraine. Psych Quar 19, 60–70 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01562026

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