TY - JOUR
AU - Craig, J Donaldson
AB - J. DONALDSON CRAIG, M.D., M.R.C.P. By Research Fellow in Medicine, St. Mary's Hospital Medical School psychological function, and the distressing symp- Introduction toms following amputation are believed by many That an amputated limb which has long since to represent an obsessional neurosis. So many of in con- disintegrated should be appreciated the the occurrences of everyday life and medicine can rise sciousness of its former owner and even give be explained with such facility in terms of present at first a so to severe symptoms is, sight,, concept day psychiatry that it becomes pitifully easy to strange that it is hardly surprising that for many fall into the error of attributing to disturbances of limb years the phantom phenomenon was largely the psyche, any symptoms for which no organic ignored in the medical literature and, even now, factor is readily demonstrable. The error is made does not receive the wide recognition which it doubly easy by the development of secondary No less deserves. to the patient than to the anxiety and other psychological disorders in those observer, the idea appears absurd and therefore, who have long suffered the tiresome symptoms in response to casual questioning during routine which, to 
TI - The Phantom Limb
JF - Postgraduate Medical Journal
DO - 10.1136/pgmj.24.278.643
DA - 1948-12-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/the-phantom-limb-RCO9jKPUOv
SP - 643
EP - 648
VL - 24
IS - 278
DP - DeepDyve
ER -