Freud on Coke (Repost)
Freud on Coke By David Cohen
2011 | 200 Pages | ISBN: 0956544509 | EPUB + PDF | 5 MB + 2 MB
2011 | 200 Pages | ISBN: 0956544509 | EPUB + PDF | 5 MB + 2 MB
Prior to the invention of psychoanalysis, the young Sigmund Freud tried to make his name with a more conventional medical breakthrough. Reading of the new miracle drug, cocaine, Freud sought therapeutic uses for the substance and soon became both a habitual user and reckless prescriber. In this revisionist biography, best-selling author David Cohen finds surprising evidence that Freud s early life was marked by the trauma and chaos common to the background of future substance abusers: and that Freud s use of the drug continued for some 15 years longer than his followers claimed. Freud on Coke is an essential addition to the literature on the relationship between medicine, drugs, and culture.