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David Cohen
ISBN: 9780956544506
Format: Hardback
Publisher:Cutting Edge Press
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David Cohen explores Freud's 15-year cocaine habit, his reckless prescription of the drug as a young doctor, and the impact of Freud's 'cocaine episode' on both his later work and broad global drug policy. Includes sections on the subsequent relationship between psychiatry and LSD and the work of Huxley and Shulgin on Mescaline and Ecstasy.
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.
| ISBN | 0956544509 | | Pages | 336 | | ISBN13 | 9780956544506
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 703 | | Publisher | Cutting Edge Press | | Published in | London | | Imprint | Cutting Edge Press | | Height (mm) | 240 | | Format | Hardback | | Width (mm) | 165 | | Publication date | 23 Mar 2011 | | Spine width (mm) | 30 | | DEWEY | 150.1952092 | | Academic level | General | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | |
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'...this fascinating study... (by)...the first-rate Cohen. 4 out of 5 Stars' The Mail on Sunday. '...makes for compulsive reading...you could say it is addictive.' The Jewish Chronicle. 'Convincingly arguing that Freud's drug-taking had profound implications for the development of his theories, Cohen places him in the context of other influential figures whose drug use and work were intertwined, making Freud on Coke a welcome addition to the bookshelves of anyone with an interest in altered states.' Metro. 'a merry romp through recreational and medicinal hard drug use by the educated classes before the Dangerous Drugs Act of 1920... But Cohen does make us stop and think, and Sigmund Freud would have applauded that.' The Scotsman.  Be the first to write a customer review
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