Freud on coke / by David Cohen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cohen, David.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cocaine abuse.

Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939.

Freud, Sigmund.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 309 p., [4] p. of plates ) ill. (some col.), ports.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

[London] : Cutting Edge Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

'Freud on Coke' explores his use of the drug, its influence on his later thought, and the subsequent, complex relationship between psychology, psychiatry, drugs and culture.

Before he thought of putting patients on the couch and interpreting their dreams, the young Sigmund Freud did a whole lot of coke amidst astonishing claims made by an American pharmaceutical company, Parker Davis, on behalf of their new 'wonder drug', cocaine hydrochloride. He tried it on patients with headaches, on practitioners of masturbation, on every depressive who came his way. Amazingly, he managed to overlook both the one legitimate use of cocaine - as a local anaesthetic - and the fact that its euphoric effect had no medicinal value.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Front Matter

Title Page

Publisher Information

Quotes

Dedication

Acknowledgements

A Tale of Two Addicts

Freud on Coke

Freud - the Conquistador

The Essential Freud

A Traumatic Childhood

Chew for Perfection

The Clever Student

Denial and the Damage Done

Cocaine by the Seine

Fliess and the Nose Obsession

The Interpretation of (Cocaine) Dreams

Artificial Heavens from 1900 to 1950

The Fliess Letters

The Chemical Muse 1952-1960

The Search for Soma, 1960s

The Russian Connection

Market rules

Colour Plates

References

Picture credits.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-283-44459-3

9786613444592

1-908122-06-4

OCLC:

714568707