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DescriptionFreud on Coke – April 1st 2012 by David Cohen (Author)  {BinanGotit} Format: epub / mobi / pdf Product Details Hardcover: 336 pages Publisher: Cutting Edge Press (April 1 2012) Language: English ISBN-10: 0956544509 ISBN-13: 978-0956544506 A stimulating history covering Freud's cocaine use, its effect on his work, the relationship between cocaine and psychiatry, and the beginnings of the "war on drugs" 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. Before he'd thought of putting patients on the couch, the young Sigmund Freud did a lot of coke, and here is the whole sordid story. Desperate to make his reputation quickly, he read and swallowed, without question, claims made by an American pharmaceutical company, Parke-Davis, on behalf of their new "wonder drug," cocaine hydrochloride. He ordered a gram and though he would claim, for years, that it was not addictive, his first taste led him to another and another, forming a habit that would last for 15 years. Situating his cocaine experiments in an introspective drug-using tradition that has included William James, Aldous Huxley, Havelock Ellis, and Timothy Leary, this book explores its influence on Freud's later thought and the subsequent relationship between psychology, psychiatry, drugs, and culture. It also includes analysis of the modern cocaine trade. As even President Obama, an admitted past cocaine user himself, acknowledges the legitimacy of questioning the global "War on Drugs," this is a timely, secret history of how that war began.  Sharing Widget |