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Freud on Coke
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Freud on Coke Hardback - 2012

by David Cohen

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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" 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.

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  • Title Freud on Coke
  • Author David Cohen
  • Binding Hardback
  • Pages 336
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cutting Edge Press
  • Publication date 2012-04
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780956544506 / 0956544509
  • Weight 1.55 lbs (0.70 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.2 x 6.2 x 1.2 in (23.37 x 15.75 x 3.05 cm)
  • Category Sociology
  • Library of Congress subjects Cocaine abuse, Freud, Sigmund - Knowledge - Cocaine
  • Dewey Decimal Code 150.195

About the author

David Cohen is a writer, filmmaker, and psychologist. His books include The Escape of Sigmund Freud and Psychologists on Psychology and biographies of the therapist Carl Rogers and of John B. Watson, the founder of behaviorism. His films include The Pleasure Principle and When Holly Went Missing.

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